QOTD May 25 2016

May 25th, 2016 on 17:46

Anatole France: “It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”

 

QOTD May 24 2016

May 24th, 2016 on 23:40

Marcel Proust: “We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”

 

QOTD May 23 2016

May 23rd, 2016 on 23:39

Erich Fromm: “Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.”

 

QOTD May 22 2016

May 22nd, 2016 on 22:59

Robert Louis Stevenson: “A friend is a gift you give yourself.”

 

QOTD May 21 2016

May 21st, 2016 on 23:11

Samuel Richardson: “Good men must be affectionate men.”

 

QOTD May 20 2016

May 20th, 2016 on 23:45

German Proverb: “Who begins too much accomplishes little.”

 

QOTD May 19 2016

May 19th, 2016 on 23:20

Plato: “You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.”

 

QOTD May 18 2016

May 18th, 2016 on 23:45

Arthur Rubinstein: “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”

 

QOTD May 17 2016

May 17th, 2016 on 23:05

Michael Sun: “I am open to receive with every breath I breathe.”

 

Gratulerer med dagen Norge!

May 17th, 2016 on 09:42

Today Norway celebrates its Constitution (May 17, ‘syttende mai’), so GRATULERER MED DAGEN Norge (Congratulations Norway)!!

Weather is sunny and calm, a LOT better than last years wind, rain and +4C (brrr!)…the outdoor party will be good! 🙂

We’re dressed up for brunch, and are then on to participate in the traditional ‘barnetoget’ (Childrens’ Parade) with Misha and his kindergarten friends in the village centre! Everyone will be celebrating and waving flags, Hurra for Norge!! 🙂

 

 

QOTD May 16 2016

May 16th, 2016 on 23:37

Martin Luther King Jr.: “Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

 

QOTD May 15 2016

May 15th, 2016 on 23:48

Brenda Ueland: “Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.”

 

QOTD May 14 2016

May 14th, 2016 on 22:31

Oscar Wilde: “The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.”

 

QOTD May 13 2016

May 13th, 2016 on 23:34

Hannah Green: “Health is not simply the absence of sickness.”

 

QOTD May 12 2016

May 12th, 2016 on 22:38

Anton Chekhov: “Man is what he believes.”

 

QOTD May 11 2016

May 11th, 2016 on 23:40

Sophia Loren: “Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”

 

QOTD May 10 2016

May 10th, 2016 on 23:10

Henry Miller: “One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”

 

QOTD May 9 2016

May 9th, 2016 on 23:15

Susan J. Bissonette: “An optimist is the human personification of spring.”

QOTD May 8 2016

May 8th, 2016 on 21:58

Erich Fromm: “Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self.”

 

QOTD May 7 2016

May 7th, 2016 on 23:50

Sheryl Crow: “It’s not having what you want
It’s wanting what you’ve got.”