QOTD July 14 2012
Saturday, July 14th, 2012Lord Chesterfield: “Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.”
Lord Chesterfield: “Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.”
David Viscott: “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
Henry Adams: “Friends are born, not made.”
Natalie Goldberg: “Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.”
Abigail Van Buren: “Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”
Jane Goodall: “Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.”
Robert Fripp: “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
Colby Dorr Dam: “Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement.”
Frank Tyger: “Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.”
Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess: “Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it’s just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don’t think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.”
Hadewijch of Antwerp: “May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.”
Dr. Joyce Brothers: “No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you’d be more productive.”
John F. Kennedy: “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”
James Gordon: “It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.”
Don Miguel Ruiz: “Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”
Maya Angelou: “Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.'”
John Le Carre: “Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.”
Gloria Naylor: “Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go… And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”
W. Somerset Maugham: “Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.”
Andre Gide: “There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ‘It all depends on me.'”