Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD July 14 2012

Saturday, July 14th, 2012

Lord Chesterfield: “Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.”

QOTD July 13 2012

Friday, July 13th, 2012

David Viscott: “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”

QOTD July 12 2012

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

Henry Adams: “Friends are born, not made.”

QOTD July 11 2012

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

Natalie Goldberg: “Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.”

QOTD July 10 2012

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

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.”

QOTD July 9 2012

Monday, July 9th, 2012

Jane Goodall: “Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.”

QOTD July 8 2012

Sunday, July 8th, 2012

Robert Fripp: “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”

QOTD July 7 2012

Saturday, July 7th, 2012

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.”

QOTD July 6 2012

Friday, July 6th, 2012

Frank Tyger: “Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.”

QOTD July 5 2012

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

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.”

QOTD July 4 2012

Wednesday, July 4th, 2012

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.”

QOTD July 3 2012

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

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.”

QOTD July 2 2012

Monday, July 2nd, 2012

John F. Kennedy: “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”

QOTD July 1 2012

Sunday, July 1st, 2012

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.”

QOTD June 30 2012

Saturday, June 30th, 2012

Don Miguel Ruiz: “Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”

QOTD June 29 2012

Friday, June 29th, 2012

Maya Angelou: “Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.'”

QOTD June 28 2012

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

John Le Carre: “Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.”

QOTD June 27 2012

Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

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.”

QOTD June 26 2012

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

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.”

QOTD June 25 2012

Monday, June 25th, 2012

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.'”