QOTD April 22 2017
April 22nd, 2017 on 23:32Helen Keller: “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.”
Helen Keller: “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.”
Charles Darwin: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
Meryl Streep: “I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.”
Agatha Christie: “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
Barack Obama: “The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what’s truly important.”
William Faulkner: “All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
Steve Jobs: “It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much.”
Epictetus: “Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.”
Pooh’s Little Instruction Book: “Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
Albert Einstein: “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
Elain Heffner: “The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.”
Rabbinical Saying: “Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
Margaret Lee Runbeck: “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
Cicero: “Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.”
Robert Rodriguez: “Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.”
Nahnatchka Khan: “Just because this isn’t in your life plan doesn’t mean this isn’t exactly where you’re supposed to be.”
Thomas a Kempis: “First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.”
William Baziotes: “Each painting has its own way of evolving…When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.”