QOTD June 20 2017
Tuesday, June 20th, 2017Hugh Macleod: “Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it’s primal. Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it’s a primal calling.”
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QOTD June 19 2017
Monday, June 19th, 2017Sharon Salzberg: “Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.”
QOTD June 18 2017
Sunday, June 18th, 2017Mary Howitt: “For visions come not to polluted eyes.”
QOTD June 17 2017
Saturday, June 17th, 2017Lisa Williams: “The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can.”
QOTD June 16 2017
Friday, June 16th, 2017Agnes Repplier: “We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.”
QOTD June 15 2017
Thursday, June 15th, 2017Jennifer Hudson: “We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it’s about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.”
QOTD June 14 2017
Wednesday, June 14th, 2017The Dalai Lama: “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
QOTD June 13 2017
Tuesday, June 13th, 2017Ali Vincent: “The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.”
QOTD June 12 2017
Monday, June 12th, 2017Sir Winston Churchill: “Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”
QOTD June 11 2017
Sunday, June 11th, 2017Carl Jung: “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
QOTD June 10 2017
Saturday, June 10th, 2017Sir Winston Churchill: “Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”
QOTD June 9 2017
Friday, June 9th, 2017Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.”
QOTD June 8 2017
Thursday, June 8th, 2017Benjamin Haydon: “Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.”
QOTD June 7 2017
Wednesday, June 7th, 2017Buddha: “The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings…
As the shadow follows the body,
As we think, so we become.”
QOTD June 6 2017
Tuesday, June 6th, 2017Darby Conley: “Sometimes it’s good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.”
QOTD June 5 2017
Monday, June 5th, 2017Waiter Rant: “Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we’re ready.”
QOTD June 4 2017
Sunday, June 4th, 2017Henry David Thoreau: “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”
QOTD June 3 2017
Saturday, June 3rd, 2017Katharine Butler Hathaway: “It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”
QOTD June 2 2017
Friday, June 2nd, 2017John F. Kennedy: “The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.”
QOTD June 1 2017
Thursday, June 1st, 2017William Raspberry: “Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction – the things that constitute real success – is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.”
