QOTD March 7 2018
Wednesday, March 7th, 2018J. K. Rowling: “Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.”
J. K. Rowling: “Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.”
Andre Gide: “Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.”
Margaret Atwood: “Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.”
Ali Vincent: “Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.”
Michael Flatley: “Whenever I hear, ‘It can’t be done,’ I know I’m close to success.”
Saint Francis of Assisi: “Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.”
Dee Hock: “The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.”
Freya Madeline Stark: “There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.”
Hugh Macleod: “If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough. In the meantime, you’re better off going out into the big, wide world, having some adventures and refilling your well. Trying to create when you don’t feel like it is like making conversation for the sake of making conversation.”
Thich Nhat Hanh: “Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.”
Meladee McCarty: “Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced… an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.”
Lydia M. Child: “You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.”
Susan Ertz: “Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
Thomas a Kempis: “Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.”
Shakti Gawain: “When I’m trusting and being myself… everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.”
James Bryant Conant: “Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”
Julia Sorel: “If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.”