QOTD December 3 2018
December 3rd, 2018 on 23:40Marlene Dietrich: “Itβs the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.”
Marlene Dietrich: “Itβs the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.”
Cato the Elder: “Grasp the subject, the words will follow.”
Ali Vincent: “Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.”
Jeffrey Rowland: “We’ve always been here and we’ll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn’t we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you’re able to is almost impossible to comprehend.”
Victor Hugo: “There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.”
Norman Vincent Peale: “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy”
Dianne Hales: “Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.”
Lord Byron: “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”
Seneca: “It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.”
Sharon Salzberg: “Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.”
Bernadette Peters: “You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?”
Saint Jerome: “The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”
Cynthia Ozick: “To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.”
Tom Morris: “The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.”
Bob Dylan: “When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it – don’t back down and don’t give up – then you’re going to mystify a lot of folks.”
Reggie Leach: “Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
W. Somerset Maugham: “Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.”
The Dalai Lama: “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
Colby Dorr Dam: “Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement.”
Marcel Proust: “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”