QOTD March 11 2010
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Albert Einstein: “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
Albert Einstein: “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
Dag Hammarskjold: “The longest journey is the journey inward.”
Judy Garland: “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
Helen Keller: “The highest result of education is tolerance.”
Stephenie Meyer: “I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”
Barbara Hall: “Because you are in control of your life. Don’t ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.”
Winston Groom: “My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
Marianne Williamson: “And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider: “A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.”
Thomas J. Watson: “Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
Aboriginal Saying: “The more you know, the less you need.”
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.”
Jane O’Reilly: “Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and ultimately societies together.”
Bessie A. Stanley: “He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.”
Jimi Hendrix: “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
Kenneth Hildebrand: “Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.”
George Eliot: “The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
Chuck Palahniuk: “The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don’t be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.”
Sean O’Faolain: “There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.”
Real Live Preacher: “One thing is clear to me. You can’t know everything you’d like to know. You can’t do everything you’d like to do. You can’t read everything you’d like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.”