QOTD March 1 2018
March 1st, 2018 on 22:07Saint Francis of Assisi: “Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.”
Saint Francis of Assisi: “Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.”
Dee Hock: “The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.”
Freya Madeline Stark: “There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.”
Hugh 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.”
Thich Nhat Hanh: “Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.”
Meladee McCarty: “Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced… an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.”
Lydia M. Child: “You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.”
Susan Ertz: “Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
Thomas a Kempis: “Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.”
Shakti Gawain: “When I’m trusting and being myself… everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.”
James Bryant Conant: “Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”
Julia Sorel: “If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.”
Seneca: “What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing–to live in accord with his nature.”
Og Mandino: “Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”
Sharon Salzberg: “Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.”
John Updike: “Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.”
Sharon Salzberg: “Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.”
Ali Vincent: “In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.”