QOTD December 13 2017
December 13th, 2017 on 23:50Jim Hightower: “Do something. If it doesn’t work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.”
Jim Hightower: “Do something. If it doesn’t work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.”
Wil Wheaton: “Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it’s surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.”
Randy K. Milholland: “Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.”
Jonathan Swift: “One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.”
Rodney Yee: “As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.”
Nathaniel Branden: “Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.”
Stella Terrill Mann: “Every time we say, “Let there be!” in any form, something happens.”
Bertha Calloway: “We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
Confucius: “When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.”
Lynn Johnston: “We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we’re doing!”
George Sand: “It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.”
Natalie Goldberg: “Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.”
Mother Teresa: “If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.”
Charles de Gaulle: “We may go to the moon, but that’s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.”
James Carroll: “We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.”
Martin Luther King Jr.: “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars… Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Trey Parker and Matt Stone: “I’ve learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.”
Catherine de Hueck Doherty: “Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.”
Voltaire: “Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.”
Lord Chesterfield: “Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”