QOTD September 12 2012
Wednesday, September 12th, 2012Plato: “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
Plato: “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
Robert Louis Stevenson: “There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”
Simone de Beauvoir: “That’s what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”
Thomas Jefferson: “Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.”
Henry George: “Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.”
Lillian Carter: “I don’t think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.”
Bob Moawad: “Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.”
Herodotus: “If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”
Reggie Leach: “Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
John Cleese: “If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”
Aaron Rose: “In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.”
Anne-Sophie Swetchine: “To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”
Unknown: “Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.”
Margaret Cho: “Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.”
Walker Percy: “To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.”
J. K. Rowling: “It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery: “What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.”
Kathleen Norris: “Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.”
Cicero: “Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.”
Pearl Buck: “The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”