QOTD November 16 2016
November 16th, 2016 on 23:50Elsa Maxwell: “Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.”
Elsa Maxwell: “Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
Albert Camus: “We only know of one duty, and that is to love.”
Thomas Merton: “The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.”
Michael J. Fox: “There’s a rule in acting called, “Don’t play the result.” If you have a character who’s going to end up in a certain place, don’t play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that’s what you do in life: You don’t play the result.”
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.”
Pete Seeger: “Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.”
Margaret Cho: “Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.”
Julia Louise Woodruff: “Out of the strain of the Doing,
Into the peace of the Done.”
William Van Horne: “Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.”
Charles Du Bos: “The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
Chinese Proverb: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
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.”
Aristotle: “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”
A. Lawrence Lowell: “Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.”
Elizabeth David: “Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.”
Jean Anouilh: “Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.”
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.: “Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.”
Elizabeth Bowen: “If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.”