QOTD January 30 2013
Wednesday, January 30th, 2013Oogway (Kung Fu Panda): “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the ‘present’.“
Oogway (Kung Fu Panda): “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the ‘present’.“
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.”
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.”
Mary MacCracken: “Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.”
George Lois: “Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”
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.”
Paul Theroux: “Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.”
Kahlil Gibran: “Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.'”
Benjamin Disraeli: “To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.”
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.”
Clarence E. Hodges: “For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.”
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?”
Kathryn L. Nelson: “Sometimes it is the quiet observer who see the most.”
Betty Friedan: “It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”
Andre Gide: “Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.”
John Scalzi: “If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it’s best to meet it with an empty bladder.2
Norman Vincent Peale: “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
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.”
John Milton: “He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.”
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.”