QOTD December 21 2012
Friday, December 21st, 2012R. D. Laing: “We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.”
R. D. Laing: “We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.”
Bill Hicks: “It’s just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.”
Og Mandino: “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
Sharon Salzberg: “By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we’re more likely to be changed by it.”
Jules Renard: “The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.”
Dorothea Brande: “Act as if it were impossible to fail.”
Chuck Palahniuk: “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
Norman Fischer: “We all need to have a creative outlet – a window, a space – so we don’t lose track of ourselves.”
Sydney Smith: “Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.”
Michel de Montaigne: “I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.”
Farrah Gray: “In life we donβt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.”
John F. Kennedy: “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger – but recognize the opportunity.”
Ward Cleaver: “When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don’t, you only make matters worse.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”
Walter Anderson: “Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”
Aimee Mullins: “Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.”
Annie Lennox: βAsk yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.β
Real Live Preacher: “Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.”
Julie Morgenstern: “If you’re afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody’s perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don’t work as well as you think they do.”
Henry Miller: “Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another’s way of life – so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!”