Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD March 11 2013

Monday, March 11th, 2013

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.”

QOTD March 10 2013

Sunday, March 10th, 2013

Kirby Larson: “Isn’t it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?”

QOTD March 9 2013

Saturday, March 9th, 2013

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.”

QOTD March 8 2013

Friday, March 8th, 2013

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.”

QOTD March 7 2013

Thursday, March 7th, 2013

J. K. Rowling: “You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”

QOTD March 6 2013

Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

Amy Vanderbilt: “The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.”

QOTD March 5 2013

Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

Stephanie Barron: “When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake.”

QOTD March 4 2013

Monday, March 4th, 2013

Robert Altman: “To play it safe is not to play.”

QOTD March 3 2013

Sunday, March 3rd, 2013

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.”

QOTD March 2 2013

Saturday, March 2nd, 2013

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.”

QOTD March 1 2013

Friday, March 1st, 2013

Ingrid Bengis: “For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.”

QOTD February 28 2013

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

Saint Jerome: “The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”

QOTD February 27 2013

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

Mahatma Gandhi: “Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.”

QOTD February 26 2013

Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

Thomas Sowell: “Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.”

QOTD February 25 2013

Monday, February 25th, 2013

Andre Gide: “Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself – and thus make yourself indispensable.”

QOTD February 24 2013

Sunday, February 24th, 2013

Norman Mailer: “Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.”

QOTD February 23 2013

Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

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.”

QOTD February 22 2013

Friday, February 22nd, 2013

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!”

QOTD February 21 2013

Thursday, February 21st, 2013

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.”

QOTD February 20 2013

Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

Joseph Chilton Pearce: “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”