QOTD October 27 2016
October 27th, 2016 on 22:02Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: “We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: “We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.”
Oprah Winfrey: “The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: “Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.”
John Green: “Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them. Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”
Nikki Giovanni: “Nothing is easy to the unwilling.”
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata: “Deal with the consequences of your actions, ’cause life ain’t no video game.”
Sol Hurok: “Get pleasure out of life…as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.”
Thomas Guthrie: “Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.”
Seth Godin: “People don’t believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often believe what their friends tell them.
They always believe what they tell themselves.”
Martha Graham: “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
Barbara Hall: “Because you are in control of your life. Don’t ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.”
Joel Spolsky: “An idea isn’t worth that much. It’s the execution of the idea that has value. If you can’t convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it’s not worth it.”
Andre Gide: “Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself – and thus make yourself indispensable.”
Paul Hawken: “Everything is connected… no one thing can change by itself.”
Saint Francis de Sales: “Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew.”
Okakura Kakuzo: “The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
John Cleese: “If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”
Erica Jong: “Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.”
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata: “Fresh clean sheets are one of life’s small joys.”