Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD July 9 2013

Tuesday, July 9th, 2013

J.R.R. Tolkien: β€œAll that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.”

QOTD July 8 2013

Monday, July 8th, 2013

Bertrand Russell: “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

QOTD July 7 2013

Sunday, July 7th, 2013

Goldie Hawn: “I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.”

QOTD July 6 2013

Saturday, July 6th, 2013

Marcus Valerius Martialis: “Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.”

QOTD July 5 2013

Friday, July 5th, 2013

Hugh Elliott: “All people want is someone to listen.”

QOTD July 4 2013

Thursday, July 4th, 2013

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.”

QOTD July 3 2013

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

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.”

QOTD July 2 2013

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013

Lee Iacocca: “Management is nothing more than motivating other people.”

QOTD July 1 2013

Monday, July 1st, 2013

Rene Descartes: “One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.”

QOTD June 30 2013

Sunday, June 30th, 2013

Christina Rossetti: “Silence is more musical than any song.”

QOTD June 29 2013

Saturday, June 29th, 2013

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.”

QOTD June 28 2013

Friday, June 28th, 2013

Ilya Prigogine: “The future is uncertain…but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.”

QOTD June 27 2013

Thursday, June 27th, 2013

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.”

QOTD June 26 2013

Wednesday, June 26th, 2013

The Dhammapada: “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.”

QOTD June 25 2013

Tuesday, June 25th, 2013

Agnes Repplier: “It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”

QOTD June 24 2013

Monday, June 24th, 2013

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.”

QOTD June 23 2013

Sunday, June 23rd, 2013

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.”

QOTD June 22 2013

Saturday, June 22nd, 2013

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.”

QOTD June 21 2013

Friday, June 21st, 2013

Bible: “Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”

QOTD June 20 2013

Thursday, June 20th, 2013

Aine Belton: “Perhaps the greatest freedom is to be free of the opinion of others.”