QOTD December 12 2014
Friday, December 12th, 2014Og Mandino: “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
Og Mandino: “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
Rodney Yee: “As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.”
Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl: “If you’re here for four more years or four more weeks, you’re here right now. I think when you’re somewhere, you ought to be there. It’s not about how long you stay in a place, it’s about what you do while you’re there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?”
Anna Quindlen: “A finished person is a boring person.”
T. S. Eliot: “Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.”
John Green: “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Often we don’t even realize who we’re meant to be because we’re so busy trying to live out someone else’s ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.”
Sidney J. Harris: “Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
George Moore: “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
Eddie Cantor: “Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
W. Somerset Maugham: “Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.”
Carl Jung: “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Dale Carnegie: “Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don’t put off being happy until some future date.”
John Burroughs: “The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’ You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.”
Dorothy Allison: “Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.”
Peter McWilliams: “If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Give all to love; obey thy heart.”
Josh Billings: “As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
Claude Bernard: “We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.”
Susan Rice: “If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.”