Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD February 15 2018

Thursday, February 15th, 2018

Seneca: “What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing–to live in accord with his nature.”

 

QOTD February 14 2018

Wednesday, February 14th, 2018

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.”

QOTD February 13 2018

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

Sharon Salzberg: “Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.”

 

QOTD February 12 2018

Monday, February 12th, 2018

John Updike: “Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.”

 

QOTD February 11 2018

Sunday, February 11th, 2018

Sharon Salzberg: “Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.”

 

QOTD February 10 2018

Saturday, February 10th, 2018

Ali Vincent: “In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.”

 

QOTD February 9 2018

Friday, February 9th, 2018

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.”

QOTD February 8 2018

Thursday, February 8th, 2018

Kenneth Hildebrand: “Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.”

 

QOTD February 7 2018

Wednesday, February 7th, 2018

Jean Nidetch: “It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.”

 

QOTD February 6 2018

Tuesday, February 6th, 2018

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.”

 

QOTD February 5 2018

Monday, February 5th, 2018

John F. Kennedy: “The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.”

QOTD February 4 2018

Sunday, February 4th, 2018

Alice Roosevelt Longworth: “I have a simple philosophy. Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. And scratch where it itches.”

 

QOTD February 3 2018

Saturday, February 3rd, 2018

Oprah Winfrey: “We are each responsible for our own life – no other person is or even can be.”

 

QOTD February 2 2018

Friday, February 2nd, 2018

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.”

 

QOTD February 1 2018

Thursday, February 1st, 2018

Thomas a Kempis: “Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.”

 

QOTD January 31 2018

Wednesday, January 31st, 2018

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.”

QOTD January 30 2018

Tuesday, January 30th, 2018

Martha Graham: “The body says what words cannot.”

 

QOTD January 29 2018

Monday, January 29th, 2018

Stephen Nachmanovitch: “The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.”

 

QOTD January 28 2018

Sunday, January 28th, 2018

Rod Steiger: “The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.”

 

QOTD January 27 2018

Saturday, January 27th, 2018

Fulton J. Sheen: “Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”