QOTD March 31 2013
Sunday, March 31st, 2013Epictetus: “Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
Epictetus: “Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
Whoopi Goldberg: “When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else. And it’ll become like a wildfire.”
Erica Eisdorfer: “Having a baby’s sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse ’em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.”
Rene Descartes: “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
Real Live Preacher: “See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.”
Colette: “I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer.”
Steve Jobs: “It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much.”
Noela Evans: “Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
Hugh Elliott: “If there’s one thing I know it’s God does love a good joke.”
Norman Vincent Peale: “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy”
Sylvia Robinson: “Some think it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go.”
John Dryden: “Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.”
Edward L. Flom: “One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you’re perceived to be by others.”
Mark Twain: “The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.”
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider: “I guess what I’m trying to say is, I don’t think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you’re not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.”
Cherie Carter-Scott: “Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”
Susan Rice: “If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.”
Ghandi (on Steak & Blow Job day, before he turned vegetarian): “If only there were more Steaks and Blow Jobs in the world, we would have no War…”
Maya Angelou: “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
Randall Munroe: “You don’t become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.”