QOTD February 19 2019
February 19th, 2019 on 19:08Chinese Proverb: “A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”
Chinese Proverb: “A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”
Shakti Gawain: “The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.”
Hugh Macleod: “Never compare your inside with somebody else’s outside.”
David Viscott: “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
Henry Van Dyke: “Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
Jean Anouilh: “Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.”
Sharon Salzberg: “We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.”
Frank Tyger: “Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Insist on yourself; never imitate… Every great man is unique.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.”
Pete Seeger: “Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower: “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that’s really why were here: to evolve as human beings.”
Saadi: “Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.”
Hugh Macleod: “Your idea doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.”
Peter McWilliams: “If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.”
Larry Page: “I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.”
Thomas Jefferson: “Never spend your money before you have it.”
Meredith Willson: “You pile up enough tomorrows and you’ll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don’t know about you, but I’d like to make today worth remembering.”
John Updike: “Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”