QOTD October 7 2016
October 7th, 2016 on 23:46Ralph Charell: “Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”
Ralph Charell: “Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”
Leonardo da Vinci: “Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”
Thomas Fuller: “He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.”
Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl: “If you’re here for four more years or four more weeks, you’re here right now. I think when you’re somewhere, you ought to be there. It’s not about how long you stay in a place, it’s about what you do while you’re there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?”
Hans Hoffman: “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
Tish Grier: “Maybe it’s easier to like someone else’s life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like.”
Elizabeth Janeway: “We don’t get offered crises, they arrive.”
William Shakespeare: “Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.”
Maria Schell: “Peace is when time doesn’t matter as it passes by.”
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata: “The shortest route to getting things done is just do it.”
Mikhail Bakunin: “The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.”
Hugh Elliott: “When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.”
Albert Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge…”
Goldie Hawn: “Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you’re good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe… combat some of the ugliness in the world.”
Euripides: “The wisest men follow their own direction.”
Paul Tillich: “Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.”
Reverend Sean Parker Dennison: “The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.”
Marquis de Condorcet: “Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.”
Alice Roosevelt Longworth: “I have a simple philosophy. Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. And scratch where it itches.”