QOTD February 26 2016
Friday, February 26th, 2016Robert Service: “Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”
Robert Service: “Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”
Ann Radcliffe: “The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!”
Charlotte-Catherine: “The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy.”
John Atkinson: “If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.”
George Eliot: “I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.”
Pierre Trudeau: “The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.”
Andrea Bocelli: “All that counts in life is intention.”
Ruben Studdard: “You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.”
Dan Millman: “The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”
A. Sachs: “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”
Larry Page: “The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.”
Margaret Lee Runbeck: “Giving is a necessity sometimes… more urgent, indeed, than having.”
Edna Buchanan: “True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.”
Saint Teresa of Avila: “Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.”
Felicia Day: “That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It’s a person who dares to love something that isn’t conventional.”
Peter McWilliams: “Resentment is anger directed at others–at what they did or did not do.”
Garth Brooks: “The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.”
e e cummings: “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
Jack Layton: “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”
John Muir: “When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”