QOTD August 2 2006
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006Stephen Ambrose: "The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."
Stephen Ambrose: "The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."
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."
Allard Lowenstein: "The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done."
Earl Mac Rauch: "Remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
Georg Wilhelm: "Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion."
Harrison Ford: "We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."
Plato: "You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters."
Dr. Thomas Fuller: "Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune."
Joan McIntosh: "Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions – 'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.'"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience."
Alan Alda: "The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."
Charles F. Kettering: "Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."
Aldo Leopold: "Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free."
Lucille Ball: "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."
Joseph Campbell: You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning… a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be."
Eckhart Tolle: "Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have."
Gloria Swanson: "Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it."
Heinz R. Pagels: "Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: "There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub."