QOTD February 11 2015
Wednesday, February 11th, 2015Aldous Huxley: βThereβs only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and thatβs your own self.β
Aldous Huxley: βThereβs only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and thatβs your own self.β
Francois de La Rochefoucauld: “It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.”
Thomas H. Huxley: “Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.”
Samahria Lyte Kaufman: “Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world.”
H. G. Wells: “We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”
Henry J. Kaiser: “When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.”
Cicero: “Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
Leo Buscaglia: “The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.”
Arthur Ashe: “Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”
Thomas A. Edison: “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Mahatma Gandhi: “Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.”
John Atkinson: “If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.”
Pythagoras: “It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.”
Irish Proverb: “You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
Robert Fritz: “If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.”
Raoul Vaneigem: “In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.”
Ellen Goodman: “We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck… But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that’s really why were here: to evolve as human beings.”
Corita Kent: “Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.”