QOTD June 19 2013
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013Walt Whitman: “The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
Walt Whitman: “The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
Meg Cabot: “In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It’s true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.”
Thomas K. Mattingly II: “It’s very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.”
Charles Wadsworth: “By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”
Peter Ustinov: “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
Real Live Preacher: “Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. ‘This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'”
Henry David Thoreau: “Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
Plutarch: “The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.”
Norman Thomas: “The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.”
Margaret Lee Runbeck: “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
Søren Kierkegaard: “Life can only be understood backwards, but should be lived forwards.”
Kathy Sierra: “In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.”
Confucius: “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
Mitch Albom: “But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”
Whoopi Goldberg: “We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”
Sugar: “You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.
You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth.
But that’s all.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.”
James Gordon, M.D.: “It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.”
George Bernard Shaw: “Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”