QOTD July 25 2018
Wednesday, July 25th, 2018Ali Vincent: “Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.”
Ali Vincent: “Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.”
John Gray: “It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.”
Lois McMaster Bujold: “I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.”
Langston Coleman: “Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.”
Martin Luther King Jr.: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
Diane Wakoski: “Learning to live what you’re born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.”
Walter Pater: “What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.”
Judy Grahn: “What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.”
John F. Kennedy: “So, let us not be blind to our differences – but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.”
Sean O’Faolain: “There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.”
Sir Winston Churchill: “For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else.”
J. K. Rowling: “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.”
Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran: “Being manipulative is dishonest and immature. We often end up having to make up more lies to cover for inconsistencies in our original manipulation. In addition, it sets a terrible example for our children. While it may solve your initial problem, the tangled web that grows from such dishonesty is more trouble than it’s worth.”
Robert Henri: “Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.”
Publilius Syrus: “Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.”
Charlie Chaplin: “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.”
Christina Baldwin: “How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.”
Martha Beck: “Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.”
Julia Louise Woodruff: “Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.”