QOTD March 11 2013
Monday, March 11th, 2013Ben Stein: “I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty…This is my highest and best use as a human.”
Ben Stein: “I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty…This is my highest and best use as a human.”
Kirby Larson: “Isn’t it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?”
Viktor Frankl: “Don’t aim at success – the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue… as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.”
Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman: “Think about a woman. Doesn’t know you’re thinking about her. Doesn’t care you’re thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.”
J. K. Rowling: “You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”
Amy Vanderbilt: “The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.”
Stephanie Barron: “When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake.”
Robert Altman: “To play it safe is not to play.”
Pablo Casals: “I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.”
D. H. Lawrence: “It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.”
Ingrid Bengis: “For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.”
Saint Jerome: “The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”
Mahatma Gandhi: “Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.”
Thomas Sowell: “Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.”
Andre Gide: “Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself – and thus make yourself indispensable.”
Norman Mailer: “Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.”
Chuck Palahniuk: “Don’t do what you want. Do what you don’t want. Do what you’re trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.”
John Muir: “No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening – still all is Beauty!”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.”
Joseph Chilton Pearce: “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”