QOTD September 24 2018
Monday, September 24th, 2018Margaret Fuller: “Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
Margaret Fuller: “Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
Anatole France: “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
Ken Kesey: “Take what you can use and let the rest go by.”
Waiter Rant: “But seduction isnβt making someone do what they donβt want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.”
Oprah Winfrey: “You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.”
Joan Didion: “Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self respect springs.”
Erich Fromm: “Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.”
Ward Cleaver: “When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don’t, you only make matters worse.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: “If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.”
Benjamin Disraeli: “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.”
Wilson Mizner: “Always be nice to people on the way up; because you’ll meet the same people on the way down.”
Thomas a Kempis: “Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.”
Doris Mortman: “Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.”
John F. Kennedy: “We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.”
Socrates: “I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.”
Jessie Sampter: “Simplicity is the peak of civilization.”
Sir Winston Churchill: “It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.”
Christopher Reeve: “Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.”
Mark Twain: “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Desiderius Erasmus: “The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.”