QOTD June 26 2018
June 26th, 2018 on 20:53Pico Iyer: “Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.”
Pico Iyer: “Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: “A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.”
e e cummings: “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
J. K. Rowling: “It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
A. J. Kitt: “You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”
William H. Sheldon: “Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.”
Hans Hoffman: “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
Mahatma Gandhi: “I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”
Felicia Day: “That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It’s a person who dares to love something that isn’t conventional.”
Abraham Lincoln: “The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
Meryl Streep: “This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There’s only change and resistance to it and then more change.”
Robbie Gass: “Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.”
J. K. Rowling: “Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.”
Carl Jung: “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Piet Mondrian: “The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.”
Og Mandino: “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”
Vida D. Scudder: “It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.”
H. G. Wells: “We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”