QOTD February 18 2015
February 18th, 2016 on 23:50Dan Millman: “The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”
Dan Millman: “The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”
A. Sachs: “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”
Larry Page: “The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.”
Margaret Lee Runbeck: “Giving is a necessity sometimes… more urgent, indeed, than having.”
Edna Buchanan: “True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.”
Saint Teresa of Avila: “Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.”
Felicia Day: “That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It’s a person who dares to love something that isn’t conventional.”
Peter McWilliams: “Resentment is anger directed at others–at what they did or did not do.”
Garth Brooks: “The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.”
e e cummings: “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
Jack Layton: “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”
John Muir: “When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”
Oprah Winfrey: “If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”
Bertrand Russell: “I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.”
Thomas A. Edison: “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
Charles Caleb Colton: “Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”
J. K. Rowling: “The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.”
Brian Adams: “Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.”