QOTD May 12 2012
Saturday, May 12th, 2012William Arthur Ward: “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.ย If you can dream it, you can become it.”
William Arthur Ward: “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.ย If you can dream it, you can become it.”
Meryl Streep: “This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There’s only change and resistance to it and then more change.”
Carol Matthau: “There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.”
Dale Carnegie: “Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don’t put off being happy until some future date.”
Katherine Mansfield: “Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”
Trey Parker and Matt Stone: “Love isn’t a decision. It’s a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.”
Peter Minard: “Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.”
Michael Masser and Linda Creed: “Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.”
Eric Schmidt: “Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It’s not to have a detailed plan of everything that you’re going to do. You can’t plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.”
Ellen DeGeneres: “Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.”
Mary Tyler Moore: “Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living.”
Alice Walker: “I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
Edith Sodergran: “The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
Martha Beck: “The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn’t have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren’t part of your essential being.”
Rodney Yee: “As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.”
Rebecca Beard: “The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.”
Unknown: “Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
(the quote is often attributed to someone calledย Frank Outlaw, but this source has not been confirmed)
Henry David Thoreau: “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
King Whitney Jr.: “Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.”
Unknown: “Smile when you want to smile…cry when you want to cry…the perfection is not to be always happy: OUT OF ANY JUDGEMENT, the perfection is to BE ALWAYS YOURSELF!”