QOTD May 24 2019
Friday, May 24th, 2019Paul Goodman: “Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.”
Paul Goodman: “Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.”
Confucius: “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran: “Children should feel loved because they exist, not because theyβve behaved in a certain way.”
Melanie Benjamin: “What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There’s quite a lot we don’t know about them.”
Alfred North Whitehead: “The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.”
Elizabeth Bowen: “Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.”
Thomas Carlyle: “Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
Steve Jobs: I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.”
Oprah Winfrey: “I believe that one of life’s greatest risks is never daring to risk.”
Frances Moore Lappe: “I’ve grown certain that the root of all fear is that we’ve been forced to deny who we are.”
Kahlil Gibran: “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
Edgar Allan Poe: “Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.”
Madonna: “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don’t want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.”
Sholem Asch: “Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”
Israel Salanter: “Promote yourself, but do not demote another.”
Wally Lamb: “Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
Thomas Fuller: “If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.”
Unknown: “If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don’t wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.”