QOTD February 7 2007
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Charlotte-Catherine: “The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy.”
Charlotte-Catherine: “The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy.”
Rainer Maria Rilke: “Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty… Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.”
Mark Twain: "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Sholem Asch: "Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence."
Marilyn vos Savant: "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."
Kurt Cobain: "Wanting to be someone you’re not is a waste of the person you are."
Arthur Schopenhauer: "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
Woodrow Wilson: "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand."
Vaclav Havel: “The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.”
Mitch Albom: "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
A. J. Kitt: "You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do."
Ben Stein: "The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."
Tallulah Bankhead: "Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."
Jeffrey Rowland: "We’ve
always been here and we’ll always be here. We are a specific
arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out,
or didn’t we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed,
much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile,
because the fact that you’re able to is almost impossible to
comprehend."
Jean-Paul Sartre: "In love, one and one are one."
Benjamin Disraeli: "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."
Chuck Palahniuk: "The things you own end up owning you."
Henry George: "Let
no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and
wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a
power."
Robert J. Shiller: "The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence."
William Congreve: "Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow’s sun to thee may never rise."