Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD March 17 2016

Thursday, March 17th, 2016

La Fontaine: “Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.”

 

QOTD March 16 2016

Wednesday, March 16th, 2016

Dale Carnegie: “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

 

QOTD March 15 2016

Tuesday, March 15th, 2016

Rebecca Beard: “The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.”

 

QOTD March 14 2016

Monday, March 14th, 2016

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach: “Those whom we support hold us up in life.”

 

QOTD March 13 2016

Sunday, March 13th, 2016

Karl von Bonstetten: “To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart – and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.”

 

QOTD March 12 2016

Saturday, March 12th, 2016

Albert Ellis: “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don’t blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny.”

 

QOTD March 11 2016

Friday, March 11th, 2016

John Gray: “It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.”

 

QOTD March 10 2016

Thursday, March 10th, 2016

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.”

 

QOTD March 9 2016

Wednesday, March 9th, 2016

Andre Gide: “Dare to be yourself.”

 

QOTD March 8 2016

Tuesday, March 8th, 2016

Jimi Hendrix: “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”

 

QOTD March 7 2016

Monday, March 7th, 2016

Philip K. Dick: “Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”

 

QOTD March 6 2016

Sunday, March 6th, 2016

John Updike: “Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”

 

QOTD March 5 2016

Saturday, March 5th, 2016

Baltasar Gracian: “It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

 

QOTD March 4 2016

Friday, March 4th, 2016

Chuck Palahniuk: “The things you own end up owning you.”

 

QOTD March 3 2016

Thursday, March 3rd, 2016

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.”

 

QOTD March 2 2016

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016

John Dryden: “Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.”

 

QOTD March 1 2016

Tuesday, March 1st, 2016

Norman Thomas: “The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.”

 

QOTD February 29 2016

Monday, February 29th, 2016

Wayne Dyer: “The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.”

 

QOTD February 28 2016

Sunday, February 28th, 2016

Norman Vincent Peale: “Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.”

 

QOTD February 27 2016

Saturday, February 27th, 2016

Bruce Barton: “If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”