QOTD June 21 2009
Sunday, June 21st, 2009H. Norman Schwarzkopf: “You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.”
H. Norman Schwarzkopf: “You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.”
Plato: “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”
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.”
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.”
Arthur Hays Sulzberger: “I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.”
Margaret Peters: “Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Arthur Rubinstein: “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Martina Horner: “What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.”
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.”
William H. Sheldon: “Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.”
Irish Proverb: “Praise youth and it will prosper.”
John Atkinson: “If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.”
Indira Gandhi: “We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”