Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD July 12 2008

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

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.”

QOTD July 9 2008

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Oliver Wendell Holmes: “The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.”

QOTD June 19 2008

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Nelson Mandela: “VISION without ACTION is a nightmare; ACTION without VISION is just passing time; but VISION with ACTION will change the world”

QOTD June 3 2008

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

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.”

QOTD May 30 2008

Friday, May 30th, 2008

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

QOTD May 21 2008

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

The laws of Manu: “Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself…True happiness is born of self-reliance.”

QOTD May 14 2008

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

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.”

QOTD May 8 2008

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

QOTD May 3 2008

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Kathleen Norris: “Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.”

QOTD April 25 2008

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Japanese Proverb: “Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

QOTD April 18 2008

Friday, April 18th, 2008

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.”

QOTD April 11 2008

Friday, April 11th, 2008

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.”

QOTD April 5 2008

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Socrates: “Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”

QOTD March 30 2008

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

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.”

QOTD March 19 2008

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

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.”

QOTD March 12 2008

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Benjamin Franklin: “If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.”

QOTD March 8 2008

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

John F. Kennedy: “The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.”

QOTD February 29 2008

Friday, February 29th, 2008

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. 😉

QOTD February 22 2008

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

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.”

QOTD February 16 2008

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

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.”