QOTD August 14 2018
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018Andre Gide: “The most decisive actions of our life – I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future – are, more often than not, unconsidered.”
Andre Gide: “The most decisive actions of our life – I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future – are, more often than not, unconsidered.”
John Muir: “Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature’s landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.”
John Mason Brown: “She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.”
J. K. Rowling: “The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”
J. R. R. Tolkien: “Little by little, one travels far.”
Austin O’Malley: “Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”
Budd Schulberg: “Isn’t everyone a part of everyone else?”
Ali Vincent: “To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it.”
Victor Hugo: “To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
Jennifer Hudson: “If you canβt take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it.”
Dorothy L. Sayers: “The worst sin – perhaps the only sin – passion can commit, is to be joyless.”
W. Somerset Maugham: “When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.”
Ingrid Bengis: “For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.”
Barbra Streisand: “A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”
Ann Richards: “There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.”
Pablo Picasso: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
Latvian Proverb: “A smiling face is half the meal.”
Carlos Castaneda: “Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it – what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.”