QOTD August 14 2014
Thursday, August 14th, 2014Scottish Proverb: “What may be done at any time will be done at no time.”
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QOTD August 13 2014
Wednesday, August 13th, 2014Joel Hawes: “Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.”
QOTD August 12 2014
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014Sidney J. Harris: “Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.”
QOTD August 11 2014
Monday, August 11th, 2014Kathleen Norris: “Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.”
QOTD August 10 2014
Sunday, August 10th, 2014Aldous Huxley: “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
QOTD August 9 2014
Saturday, August 9th, 2014Leo Burnett: “When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.”
QOTD August 8 2014
Friday, August 8th, 2014Ralph Charell: “Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”
QOTD August 7 2014
Thursday, August 7th, 2014Catherine de Hueck: “With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.”
QOTD August 6 2014
Wednesday, August 6th, 2014Jacob Braude: “Always behave like a duck – keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.”
QOTD August 5 2014
Tuesday, August 5th, 2014Samuel Johnson: “The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.”
QOTD August 4 2014
Monday, August 4th, 2014Hugh Macleod: “If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough. In the meantime, you’re better off going out into the big, wide world, having some adventures and refilling your well. Trying to create when you don’t feel like it is like making conversation for the sake of making conversation.”
QOTD August 3 2014
Sunday, August 3rd, 2014Jose Ortega y Gasset: “Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality… the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.”
QOTD August 2 2014
Saturday, August 2nd, 2014Theodore Roosevelt: “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
QOTD August 1 2014
Friday, August 1st, 2014Alban Goodier: “Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.”
QOTD July 31 2014
Thursday, July 31st, 2014Edith Sodergran: “The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
QOTD July 30 2014
Wednesday, July 30th, 2014Joseph Murphy: “We go where our vision is.”
QOTD July 29 2014
Tuesday, July 29th, 2014Alan Moore: “There’s no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there’s a longer pause between relapses.”
QOTD July 28 2014
Monday, July 28th, 2014James M. Barrie: “Always be a little kinder than necessary.”
QOTD July 27 2014
Sunday, July 27th, 2014Nancy White: “If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn’t agree with us, then maybe we won’t blow up the planet.”
QOTD July 26 2014
Saturday, July 26th, 2014Eugene S. Wilson: “Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
