QOTD July 8 2017
July 8th, 2017 on 13:20Abigail van Buren: “The best index to a person’s character is
(a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and
(b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.”
Abigail van Buren: “The best index to a person’s character is
(a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and
(b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld: “To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.”
Joanna Field: “I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.”
Andre Gide: “Dare to be yourself.”
Jules Renard: “Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”
Michel de Montaigne: “Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.”
Marianne Williamson: “And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”
J. K. Rowling: “It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
Albert Einstein: “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.”
William Van Horne: “Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.”
Sir Colin Marshall: “The customer doesn’t expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong.”
Michael Patrick King: “Seasons change, so do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it’s comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart and if you’re very lucky, a plane ride away.”
Audre Lorde: “Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.”
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.”
James Gordon: “It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.”
Carl Jung: “The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
Eddie Cantor: “Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
Hugh Macleod: “Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it’s primal. Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it’s a primal calling.”
Sharon Salzberg: “Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.”