Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD September 3 2014

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014

Lois McMaster Bujold: “If the truth doesn’t save us, what does that say about us?”

QOTD September 2 2014

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014

Euripides: “The wisest men follow their own direction.”

QOTD September 1 2014

Monday, September 1st, 2014

Jean Houston: “At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.”

QOTD August 31 2014

Sunday, August 31st, 2014

Steve Jobs: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

QOTD August 30 2014

Saturday, August 30th, 2014

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”

QOTD August 29 2014

Friday, August 29th, 2014

Stephenie Meyer: “I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.”

QOTD August 28 2014

Thursday, August 28th, 2014

Aaron McGruder: “When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I’ll have no ego to injure.”

QOTD August 27 2014

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

Lord Chesterfield: “Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.”

QOTD August 26 2014

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

Barry Neil Kaufman: “A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it’s a whisper.”

QOTD August 25 2014

Monday, August 25th, 2014

George Sand: “Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”

QOTD August 24 2014

Sunday, August 24th, 2014

Henry Miller: “One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”

QOTD August 23 3014

Saturday, August 23rd, 2014

Narenda Rocherolle: “Aspiring to a small business that does what it does very well is a noble pursuit.”

QOTD August 22 2014

Friday, August 22nd, 2014

Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran: “A problem isn’t a problem until it actually happens.”

QOTD August 21 2014

Thursday, August 21st, 2014

Hugh Macleod: “Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.”

QOTD August 20 2014

Wednesday, August 20th, 2014

Steve Jobs: “You can’t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.”

QOTD August 19 2014

Tuesday, August 19th, 2014

Aristotle: “A friend is a second self.”

QOTD August 18 2014

Monday, August 18th, 2014

Joseph Addison: “True happiness… arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.”

QOTD August 17 2014

Sunday, August 17th, 2014

Cory Doctorow: “Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.”

QOTD August 16 2014

Saturday, August 16th, 2014

Denzel Washington: “I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you’re prepared for it.”

QOTD August 15 2014

Friday, August 15th, 2014

Tallulah Bankhead: “Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”