QOTD June 15 2018
Friday, June 15th, 2018Robbie Gass: “Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.”
Robbie Gass: “Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.”
J. K. Rowling: “Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.”
Carl Jung: “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Piet Mondrian: “The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.”
Og Mandino: “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”
Vida D. Scudder: “It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.”
H. G. Wells: “We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”
Robert Louis Stevenson: “The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.”
Thomas Paine: “I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. βTis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
Joyce Grenfell: “I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving – not giving and taking.”
Anonymous: “When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you.”
Sophocles: “What you cannot enforce, do not command.”
German Proverb: “Never give advice unless asked.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.”
Thich Nhat Hanh: “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
Carl Schurz: “If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.”
John Wooden: “You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”
Adelle Davis: “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.”