Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD December 21 2012

Friday, December 21st, 2012

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.”

QOTD December 20 2012

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

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.”

QOTD December 19 2012

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

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.”

QOTD December 18 2012

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

Sharon Salzberg: “By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we’re more likely to be changed by it.”

QOTD December 17 2012

Monday, December 17th, 2012

Jules Renard: “The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.”

QOTD December 16 2012

Sunday, December 16th, 2012

Dorothea Brande: “Act as if it were impossible to fail.”

QOTD December 15 2012

Saturday, December 15th, 2012

Chuck Palahniuk: “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”

QOTD December 14 2012

Friday, December 14th, 2012

Norman Fischer: “We all need to have a creative outlet – a window, a space – so we don’t lose track of ourselves.”

QOTD December 13 2012

Thursday, December 13th, 2012

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.”

QOTD December 12 2012

Wednesday, December 12th, 2012

Michel de Montaigne: “I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.”

QOTD December 11 2012

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

Farrah Gray: “In life we don’t 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.”

QOTD December 10 2012

Monday, December 10th, 2012

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.”

QOTD December 9 2012

Sunday, December 9th, 2012

Ward Cleaver: “When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don’t, you only make matters worse.”

QOTD December 8 2012

Saturday, December 8th, 2012

Oprah Winfrey: “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”

QOTD December 7 2012

Friday, December 7th, 2012

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.”

QOTD December 6 2012

Thursday, December 6th, 2012

Aimee Mullins: “Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.”

QOTD December 5 2012

Wednesday, December 5th, 2012

Annie Lennox: β€œAsk yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.”

QOTD December 4 2012

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

Real Live Preacher: “Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.”

QOTD December 3 2012

Monday, December 3rd, 2012

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.”

QOTD December 2 2012

Sunday, December 2nd, 2012

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!”