QOTD July 29 2013
Monday, July 29th, 2013Carl Jung: “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Carl Jung: “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Steve Jobs: “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson: “The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
George Bernard Shaw: “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
James Lane Allen: “You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”
Scott Westerfeld: “It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.”
William H. Sheldon: “Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.”
W. S. Gilbert: “If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you’re bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven’t a chance.”
Gloria Swanson: “Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.”
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider: “We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!”
Benjamin Franklin: “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
Alexander A. Bogomoletz: “One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.”
Joan Didion: “Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self respect springs.”
Tallulah Bankhead: “Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”
Catherine de Hueck Doherty: “Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.”
Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey: “May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.”
Sir Walter Scott: “He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.”
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata: “What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn’t it? We can’t let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!”
Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
Unknown: “Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.”