QOTD May 25 2016
May 25th, 2016 on 17:46Anatole France: “It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”
Anatole France: “It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”
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.”
Erich Fromm: “Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.”
Robert Louis Stevenson: “A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
Samuel Richardson: “Good men must be affectionate men.”
German Proverb: “Who begins too much accomplishes little.”
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.”
Arthur Rubinstein: “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”
Michael Sun: “I am open to receive with every breath I breathe.”
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!! 🙂
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.”
Brenda Ueland: “Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.”
Oscar Wilde: “The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.”
Hannah Green: “Health is not simply the absence of sickness.”
Anton Chekhov: “Man is what he believes.”
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.”
Henry Miller: “One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”
Susan J. Bissonette: “An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
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.”
Sheryl Crow: “It’s not having what you want
It’s wanting what you’ve got.”