QOTD June 18 2017
June 18th, 2017 on 13:20Mary Howitt: “For visions come not to polluted eyes.”
Mary Howitt: “For visions come not to polluted eyes.”
Lisa Williams: “The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can.”
Agnes Repplier: “We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.”
Despite some earlier (one-day) dance festivals earlier this year, only one qualifies as the traditional opening of the summer festival season: the Parkfeest in Oosterhout! 🙂
The first night is, as usual, ‘coverband night’ with: Joe Cocker Tribute, Deep White, Bruno Mars Tribute, Pearl Jamming and Tribute 2 Bob Marley. The stage tomorrow is filled with: Nielson, The Common Linnets, Kraantje Pappie, Jett Rebel, Kovacs, Van Dik Hout and Txarango (Barcelona based, Latin-American rhythms with reggae, pop and dub).
Sunday is family day and Misha is gonna be part of it; first time to go festivalling with my big little angel woohooo!! 🙂
Jennifer Hudson: “We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it’s about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.”
The Dalai Lama: “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
Ali Vincent: “The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.”
Sir Winston Churchill: “Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”
Carl Jung: “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
Sir Winston Churchill: “Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.”
Benjamin Haydon: “Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.”
Buddha: “The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings…
As the shadow follows the body,
As we think, so we become.”
Darby Conley: “Sometimes it’s good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.”
Waiter Rant: “Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we’re ready.”
Henry David Thoreau: “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”
Katharine Butler Hathaway: “It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”
John F. Kennedy: “The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.”
William Raspberry: “Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction – the things that constitute real success – is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.”
Simone de Beauvoir: “I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.”