QOTD September 3 2014
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014Lois McMaster Bujold: “If the truth doesn’t save us, what does that say about us?”
Lois McMaster Bujold: “If the truth doesn’t save us, what does that say about us?”
Euripides: “The wisest men follow their own direction.”
Jean Houston: “At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.”
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.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
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.”
Aaron McGruder: “When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I’ll have no ego to injure.”
Lord Chesterfield: “Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.”
Barry Neil Kaufman: “A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it’s a whisper.”
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.”
Henry Miller: “One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”
Narenda Rocherolle: “Aspiring to a small business that does what it does very well is a noble pursuit.”
Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran: “A problem isnβt a problem until it actually happens.”
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.”
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.”
Aristotle: “A friend is a second self.”
Joseph Addison: “True happiness… arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.”
Cory Doctorow: “Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.”
Denzel Washington: “I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you’re prepared for it.”
Tallulah Bankhead: “Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”