QOTD March 23 2015
Monday, March 23rd, 2015Michel de Montaigne: “I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.”
Michel de Montaigne: “I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.”
Confucius: “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
Ann Richards: “The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it’s all we’ll need.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick: “The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”
Nicole Kidman: “When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.”
Mary Field Belenky: “Really listening and suspending one’s own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms… This is a process that requires trust and builds trust.”
Ken Keyes Jr.: “A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.”
Charles W. Eliot: “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.”
Marcel Proust: “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Mother Teresa: “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
Anonymous: “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: “Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.”
Sydney J. Harris: “An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.”
Aristotle: “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
Leo Burnett: “When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.”
Reverend Sean Parker Dennison: “The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.”
John Ruskin: “In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.”
Herbert Spencer: “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
Robert J. Sawyer: “General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.”