QOTD November 11 2012
Sunday, November 11th, 2012McCallister Dodds: “Real strength is not just a condition of one’s muscle, but a tenderness in one’s spirit.”
McCallister Dodds: “Real strength is not just a condition of one’s muscle, but a tenderness in one’s spirit.”
J. H. Holmes: “The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.”
Lois McMaster Bujold: “What you are is a question only you can answer.”
Anita Roddick: “The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.”
Sean Stewart: “Sometimes you feel other people’s pain worse than your own. We’re armored against our own troubles. We can’t afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your…heart.”
Hugh Macleod: “Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it.Β It’s your freedom that will get you to where you want to go.”
Rod Steiger: “The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.”
Randy K. Milholland: “Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.”
George Eliot: “It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”
Ken Keyes Jr.: “A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.”
Malcolm Gladwell: “If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Paul “Bear” Bryant: “When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don’t repeat it.”
Albert Ellis: “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don’t blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
Andy Rooney: “Don’t rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.”
Gregory Garcia and Dan CoscinoΒ : “A hug is a wonderful thing. It makes you feel wanted, needed, and loved all at the same time.”
Seneca: “The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it’s the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that’s weighed.”
Helen Keller: “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.”
Oscar Wilde: “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.”
George W. Bush: “I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.”