QOTD March 9 2016
March 9th, 2016 on 23:34Andre Gide: “Dare to be yourself.”
Andre Gide: “Dare to be yourself.”
Jimi Hendrix: “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
Philip K. Dick: “Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
John Updike: “Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
Baltasar Gracian: “It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”
Chuck Palahniuk: “The things you own end up owning you.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.”
John Dryden: “Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.”
Norman Thomas: “The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.”
Wayne Dyer: “The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.”
Norman Vincent Peale: “Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.”
Bruce Barton: “If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”
Robert Service: “Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”
Ann Radcliffe: “The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!”
Charlotte-Catherine: “The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy.”
John Atkinson: “If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.”
George Eliot: “I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.”
Pierre Trudeau: “The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.”
Andrea Bocelli: “All that counts in life is intention.”
Ruben Studdard: “You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.”