QOTD July 12 2008
Saturday, July 12th, 2008Margaret 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.”
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.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes: “The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.”
Nelson Mandela: “VISION without ACTION is a nightmare; ACTION without VISION is just passing time; but VISION with ACTION will change the world”
Diana Spencer: “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”
H. Norman Schwarzkopf: “You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.”
The laws of Manu: “Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself…True happiness is born of self-reliance.”
Mike Myers: “And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you’re beautiful, so don’t let other people tell you that you’re not just because you don’t look like the people in magazines. Or because you’re not that weird ideal body image that’s out there right now.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
Kathleen Norris: “Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.”
Japanese Proverb: “Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
Richard Rybolt: “There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.”
Andy Rooney: “Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.”
Socrates: “Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”
Eleanor Roosevelt: “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
Barbara Hall: “You’re alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.”
Benjamin Franklin: “If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.”
John F. Kennedy: “The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.”
Annie Lennox: “Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.”
Nice one for a day that doesn’t really exist. 😉
Steve Jobs: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Walter Anderson: “Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”