QOTD February 15 2018
Thursday, February 15th, 2018Seneca: “What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing–to live in accord with his nature.”
Seneca: “What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing–to live in accord with his nature.”
Og Mandino: “Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”
Sharon Salzberg: “Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.”
John Updike: “Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.”
Sharon Salzberg: “Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.”
Ali Vincent: “In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.”
Eric Hoffer: “A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.”
Kenneth Hildebrand: “Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.”
Jean Nidetch: “It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
John F. Kennedy: “The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.”
Alice Roosevelt Longworth: “I have a simple philosophy. Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. And scratch where it itches.”
Oprah Winfrey: “We are each responsible for our own life – no other person is or even can be.”
Tish Grier: “Maybe it’s easier to like someone else’s life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsibility to change our lives into lives we might like.”
Thomas a Kempis: “Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.”
Robert Service: “Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”
Martha Graham: “The body says what words cannot.”
Stephen Nachmanovitch: “The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.”
Rod Steiger: “The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.”
Fulton J. Sheen: “Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”