QOTD January 22 2019
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019John Henry Cardinal Newman: “Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.”
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QOTD January 21 2019
Monday, January 21st, 2019Marquis de Condorcet: “Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.”
QOTD January 20 2019
Sunday, January 20th, 2019Seneca: “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
QOTD January 19 2019
Saturday, January 19th, 2019Jim Hightower: “Do something. If it doesn’t work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.”
QOTD January 18 2019
Friday, January 18th, 2019Holly Lisle: “You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.”
QOTD January 17 2019
Thursday, January 17th, 2019Thomas Dekker: “[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.”
QOTD January 16 2019
Wednesday, January 16th, 2019Cory Doctorow: “This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.”
QOTD January 15 2018
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019Hugh Prather: “True humor is fun – it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.”
QOTD January 14 2019
Monday, January 14th, 2019Barbra Streisand: “You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”
QOTD January 13 2019
Sunday, January 13th, 2019Oprah Winfrey: “When you’re doing the work you’re meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you’re getting paid.”
QOTD January 12 2019
Saturday, January 12th, 2019Gwendolyn Brooks: “Each body has its art…”
QOTD January 11 2019
Friday, January 11th, 2019Eugene Mirman: “Some tips for life: 1.Don’t be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don’t get too excited when you read the Fountainhead 4.In times of recession, it is time for invention. 5.Things can kill you, so keep that in mind, you fearless know it alls.”
QOTD January 10 2019
Thursday, January 10th, 2019George Santayana: “Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.”
QOTD January 9 2019
Wednesday, January 9th, 2019Arthur Rubinstein: “Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
QOTD January 8 2019
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019Eric A. Burns: “Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.”
QOTD January 7 2019
Monday, January 7th, 2019George S. Patton: “Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”
QOTD January 6 2019
Sunday, January 6th, 2019Sara Zarr: “I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. The ones who are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid.”
QOTD January 5 2019
Saturday, January 5th, 2019Michel de Montaigne: “Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.”
QOTD January 4 2019
Friday, January 4th, 2019J. R. R. Tolkien: “Little by little, one travels far.”
QOTD January 3 2019
Thursday, January 3rd, 2019Emily Dickinson: “Forever is composed of nows.”
