QOTD December 1 2012
Saturday, December 1st, 2012Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.”
Hugh Macleod: “It’s about what YOU are going to do with the short time you have left on this earth.”
Aldous Huxley: “There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”
Joan Didion: “To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth… is potentially to have everything…”
Milton Berle: “Laughter is an instant vacation.”
Ethel Barrett: “We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.”
Simone de Beauvoir: “I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.”
Dorothy Draper: “Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it’s well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.”
Vincent van Gogh: “I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.”
Julia Sorel: “If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.”
Lois McMaster Bujold: “If you can’t do what you want, do what you can.”
Seneca: “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
Wayne Dyer: “Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”
Denis Diderot: “Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
Dr. Thomas Dooley: “Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.”
George Henry Lewes: “The only cure for grief is action.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”
Helen Keller: “When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
Carl Jung: “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”