QOTD August 24 2016
Wednesday, August 24th, 2016Jane Goodall: “I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other’s company.”
Jane Goodall: “I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other’s company.”
Mark Twain: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
Stella Terrill Mann: “Desire, ask, believe, receive.”
Jennifer Hudson: “We canβt let our insecurities own or destroy us. We have to face them head-on. That was part of the challenge that motivated me to take this journey. I wanted to see what I could do and, more important, I wanted to understand everything that was holding me back.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
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.”
Tom Clancy: “We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.”
William Penn: “Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.”
Eugene Delacroix: “I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.”
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider: “It’s just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we’re all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it’s like a kind of poetry.”
Florida Scott-Maxwell: “You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.”
Colleen Wainwright: “I love stuff as much as the next guy, but Iβve come to understand that, regardless of the cost of acquiring it, the price of having it is freedom.”
Brian Buckner: “There comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it’s all just conditioning. It’s the rare man who truly know who he is.”
David Zucker: “Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.”
Katherine Mansfield: “Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.”
Katharine 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.”
Aldous Huxley: “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
John W. Gardner: “History never looks like history when you are living through it.”
Robert Bresson: “Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
Scott Adams: “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”