QOTD August 5 2018
August 5th, 2018 on 23:49Victor Hugo: “To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
Victor Hugo: “To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
Jennifer Hudson: “If you can’t take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it.”
Dorothy L. Sayers: “The worst sin – perhaps the only sin – passion can commit, is to be joyless.”
W. Somerset Maugham: “When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.”
Ingrid Bengis: “For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.”
Barbra Streisand: “A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”
Ann Richards: “There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.”
Pablo Picasso: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
Latvian Proverb: “A smiling face is half the meal.”
Carlos Castaneda: “Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it – what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.”
Ali Vincent: “Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.”
John Gray: “It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.”
Lois McMaster Bujold: “I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.”
Langston Coleman: “Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.”
Martin Luther King Jr.: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
Diane Wakoski: “Learning to live what you’re born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.”
Walter Pater: “What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.”
Judy Grahn: “What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.”
John F. Kennedy: “So, let us not be blind to our differences – but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.”