Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD August 24 2016

Wednesday, August 24th, 2016

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.”

QOTD August 23 2016

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016

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.”

QOTD August 22 2016

Monday, August 22nd, 2016

Stella Terrill Mann: “Desire, ask, believe, receive.”

 

QOTD August 21 2016

Sunday, August 21st, 2016

Jennifer Hudson: “We can’t 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.”

 

QOTD August 20 2016

Saturday, August 20th, 2016

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”

 

QOTD August 19 2016

Friday, August 19th, 2016

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.”

 

QOTD August 18 2016

Thursday, August 18th, 2016

Tom Clancy: “We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.”

 

QOTD August 17 2016

Wednesday, August 17th, 2016

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.”

 

QOTD August 16 2016

Tuesday, August 16th, 2016

Eugene Delacroix: “I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.”

 

QOTD August 15 2016

Monday, August 15th, 2016

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.”

 

QOTD August 14 2016

Sunday, August 14th, 2016

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.”

 

QOTD August 13 2016

Saturday, August 13th, 2016

Colleen Wainwright: “I love stuff as much as the next guy, but I’ve come to understand that, regardless of the cost of acquiring it, the price of having it is freedom.”

 

QOTD August 12 2016

Friday, August 12th, 2016

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.”

 

QOTD August 11 2016

Thursday, August 11th, 2016

David Zucker: “Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.”

 

QOTD August 10 2016

Wednesday, August 10th, 2016

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.”

 

QOTD August 9 2016

Tuesday, August 9th, 2016

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.”

 

QOTD August 8 2016

Monday, August 8th, 2016

Aldous Huxley: “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

 

QOTD August 7 2016

Sunday, August 7th, 2016

John W. Gardner: “History never looks like history when you are living through it.”

 

QOTD August 6 2016

Saturday, August 6th, 2016

Robert Bresson: “Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

 

QOTD August 5 2016

Friday, August 5th, 2016

Scott Adams: “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”