QOTD June 24 2012
Sunday, June 24th, 2012Josh Billings: “Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.”
Josh Billings: “Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.”
Madame de Tencin: “Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.”
Anne-Sophie Swetchine: “We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.”
Henry Van Dyke: “Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
Thomas a Kempis: “First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.”
Arthur Hays Sulzberger: “I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.”
Salma Hayek: “People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.”
Pablo Picasso: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
Christine Bovee: “Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.”
Maria Edgeworth: “If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.”
Shakti Gawain: “We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples’ models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.”
Freya Madeline Stark: “There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
Milan Kundera: “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
John Allen: “The thing that I’m always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.”
Charlotte Bronte: “I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward.”
Oprah Winfrey: “I believe that [everyone] is the keeper of a dream – and by tuning into one another’s secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.”
John Eliot: “The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards.. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; donβt limit it.”
Euripides: “The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.”
Sharon Salzberg: “Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.”
Israel Salanter: “Promote yourself, but do not demote another.”