QOTD June 4 2012
Monday, June 4th, 2012Sara June Parker: “May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.”
Sara June Parker: “May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.”
William Arthur Ward: “A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”
Richard Wagner: “Joy is not in things; it is in us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Lily Tomlin: “The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.”
George Sand: “Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
Albert Einstein: “Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
Margaret Wheatley: “When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.”
Dag Hammarskjold: “The longest journey is the journey inward.”
Cheryl RenΓ©e Grossman: “I dream, therefore I become.”
Sue Halpern: “Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive ‘nows.'”
Mark Twain: “Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
Robert Service: “Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
Agatha Christie: “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
Charles F. Kettering: “Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.”
Jeph Jacques: “You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.”
John Wooden: “You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”
Ellen DeGeneres: “Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”
Meredith Willson: “Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.”