QOTD July 9 2013
Tuesday, July 9th, 2013J.R.R. Tolkien: βAll that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.β
J.R.R. Tolkien: βAll that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.β
Bertrand Russell: “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
Goldie Hawn: “I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.”
Marcus Valerius Martialis: “Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.”
Hugh Elliott: “All people want is someone to listen.”
Douglas Adams: “He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
Michel de Montaigne: “Don’t discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.”
Lee Iacocca: “Management is nothing more than motivating other people.”
Rene Descartes: “One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.”
Christina Rossetti: “Silence is more musical than any song.”
L. M. Montgomery: “I don’t want to talk as much. It’s nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one’s heart, like treasures. I don’t like to have them laughed at or wondered over.”
Ilya Prigogine: “The future is uncertain…but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.”
J. K. Rowling: “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you’ve failed by default.”
The Dhammapada: “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.”
Agnes Repplier: “It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
Bob Dylan: “When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it – don’t back down and don’t give up – then you’re going to mystify a lot of folks.”
Whitney Young: “The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.”
Oprah Winfrey: “As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.”
Bible: “Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”
Aine Belton: “Perhaps the greatest freedom is to be free of the opinion of others.”