Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD June 21 2009

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

H. Norman Schwarzkopf: “You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.”

QOTD June 12 2009

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Plato: “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”

QOTD June 7 2009

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

David Assael: “After you’ve been in a place for a while, everything starts to look… I won’t say better, there’s no need to go to extremes…but your everyday life does start to become…familiar.”

QOTD June 3 2009

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Jacqueline Cochran: “I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… Adventure is a state of mind – and spirit.”

QOTD June 1 2009

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Arthur Hays Sulzberger: “I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.”

QOTD May 26 2009

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Margaret Peters: “Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.”

QOTD May 22 2009

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Dan Millman: “The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”

QOTD May 13 2009

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Sharon Salzberg: “Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can’t see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can’t design or ordain.”

QOTD May 7 2009

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Mother Teresa: “Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.”

QOTD May 4 2009

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Arthur Rubinstein: “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”

QOTD April 26 2009

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

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.”

QOTD April 13 2009

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Denis Watley: “The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.”

QOTD April 6 2009

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Herbert W. Boyer: “Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.”

QOTD March 26 2009

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Martina Horner: “What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.”

QOTD March 21 2009

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Ellen Metcalf: “You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can’t sit back and wait.”

QOTD March 19 2009

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

William H. Sheldon: “Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.”

QOTD March 10 2009

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Irish Proverb: “Praise youth and it will prosper.”

QOTD March 5 2009

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

John Atkinson: “If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.”

QOTD February 26 2009

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Chuck Palahniuk: “The things you own end up owning you.”

QOTD February 20 2009

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Indira Gandhi: “We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”