QOTD December 6 2016
December 6th, 2016 on 23:45Paul Tillich: “The first duty of love is to listen.”
Paul Tillich: “The first duty of love is to listen.”
Max L. Forman:” Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.”
Hugh Elliott: “Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn’t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.”
Martin Luther King Jr.: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
James M. Barrie: “Always be a little kinder than necessary.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: “A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a lifetime’s experience.”
Thomas A. Edison: “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Irving Wallace: “To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”
John Barth: “Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.”
Ali Vincent: “Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.”
Robert Fripp: “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
Edward Chapin: “A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.”
Helen Keller: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”
Wil Wheaton: “I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.”
W. Somerset Maugham: “I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.”
Samuel Johnson: “Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
John Burroughs: “The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’ You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.”
Winifred Holtby: “The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.”
Albert Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.”
Colette: “The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.”