QOTD September 23 2014
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014Randy Pausch: “It’s not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.”
Randy Pausch: “It’s not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.”
Sharon Gold: “Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you’re waking up to instant stress. You shouldn’t be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it’s time to start your day.”
Katherine Mansfield: “By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with… the earth and the wonders thereof – the sea – the sun.”
John F. Kennedy: “The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.”
Victor Hugo: βWhat a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!β
Eleanor Roosevelt: “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Nothing is worse than active ignorance.”
Irma Kurtz: “Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.”
Max Frisch: “Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.”
Anais Nin: “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
David Lloyd George: “Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey: “May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.”
Saint Francis of Assisi: “Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: βNothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.β
Mahatma Gandhi: “I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”
Norman Vincent Peale: “Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you’ll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you’ll shake it to pieces. You’ll love it into greatness.”
Epictetus: “First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”
Jonathan Swift: “It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”
Holly Lisle: “Actions have consequences…first rule of life. And the second rule is this – you are the only one responsible for your own actions.”
Jessie Sampter: “Simplicity is the peak of civilisation.”