QOTD December 28 2015
Monday, December 28th, 2015Georgia O’Keeffe: “Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”
Georgia O’Keeffe: “Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”
Willa Cather: “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
Trey Parker and Matt Stone: “Love isn’t a decision. It’s a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.”
David Viscott: βTo love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.β
Plutarch: “The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.”
Cecil B. DeMille: “The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
John Hope Franklin: “We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths… and tell the world the glories of our journey.”
Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman: “In Kyudo philosophy, you don’t aim–you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there’s nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.”
Aristotle: “Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”
Hubert H. Humphrey: “You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you’ll find out that you’re a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that’s happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.”
Publilius Syrus: “Never promise more than you can perform.”
Ingrid Bergman: “A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes unnecessary.”
John Muir: “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.”
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata: “The shortest route to getting things done is just do it.”
Mario Puzo: “Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.”
Hugh Macleod: “Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.”
Booker T. Washington: “There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Matt Witten: “Parents are never as bad as kids think they are.”
Kahlil Gibran: “It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.”
Lucille Ball: “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”