Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD January 30 2013

Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

Oogway (Kung Fu Panda): “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the ‘present’.

QOTD January 29 2013

Tuesday, January 29th, 2013

Margaret Cho: “Try to put your happiness before anyone else’s, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.”

QOTD January 28 2013

Monday, January 28th, 2013

Terry Lynn Taylor: “Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.”

QOTD January 27 2013

Sunday, January 27th, 2013

Mary MacCracken: “Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.”

QOTD January 26 2013

Saturday, January 26th, 2013

George Lois: “Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”

QOTD January 25 2013

Friday, January 25th, 2013

Michele Shea: “Creativity is…seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.”

QOTD January 24 2013

Thursday, January 24th, 2013

Paul Theroux: “Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.”

QOTD January 23 2013

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013

Kahlil Gibran: “Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.'”

QOTD January 22 2013

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

Benjamin Disraeli: “To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.”

QOTD January 21 2013

Monday, January 21st, 2013

Norman Vincent Peale: “Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities – always see them, for they’re always there.”

QOTD January 20 2013

Sunday, January 20th, 2013

Clarence E. Hodges: “For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.”

QOTD January 19 2013

Saturday, January 19th, 2013

Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl: “If you’re here for four more years or four more weeks, you’re here right now. I think when you’re somewhere, you ought to be there. It’s not about how long you stay in a place, it’s about what you do while you’re there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?”

QOTD January 18 2013

Friday, January 18th, 2013

Kathryn L. Nelson: “Sometimes it is the quiet observer who see the most.”

QOTD January 17 2013

Thursday, January 17th, 2013

Betty Friedan: “It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”

QOTD January 16 2013

Wednesday, January 16th, 2013

Andre Gide: “Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.”

QOTD January 15 2013

Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

John Scalzi: “If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it’s best to meet it with an empty bladder.2

QOTD January 14 2013

Monday, January 14th, 2013

Norman Vincent Peale: “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

QOTD January 13 2013

Sunday, January 13th, 2013

Charles W. Eliot: “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.”

QOTD January 12 2013

Saturday, January 12th, 2013

John Milton: “He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.”

QOTD January 11 2013

Friday, January 11th, 2013

Natasha Bedingfield: “No one else can speak the words on your lips

Drench yourself in words unspoken

Live your life with arms wide open

Today is where your book begins

The rest is still unwritten.”