QOTD March 17 2016
Thursday, March 17th, 2016La Fontaine: “Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.”
La Fontaine: “Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.”
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.”
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.”
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach: “Those whom we support hold us up in life.”
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.”
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.”
John Gray: “It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.”
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.”
Andre Gide: “Dare to be yourself.”
Jimi Hendrix: “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
Philip K. Dick: “Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
John Updike: “Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
Baltasar Gracian: “It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”
Chuck Palahniuk: “The things you own end up owning you.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.”
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.”
Norman Thomas: “The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.”
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.”
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.”
Bruce Barton: “If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”