QOTD September 17 2015
September 17th, 2015 on 21:17Desiderius Erasmus: “The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.”
Desiderius Erasmus: “The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.”
George Bernard Shaw: “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
Thomas Moore: “To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.”
Euripides: “Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
Elizabeth Stone: “The particular human chain we’re part of is central to our individual identity.”
Carol Burnett: “When you have a dream you’ve got to grab it and never let go.”
Alan Alda: “The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.”
Joseph Conrad: “Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”
Thomas J. Watson: “Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.”
Chinese Proverb: “To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Difficulties come when you don’t pay attention to life’s whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you’ll get a scream.”
Mason Cooley: “Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.”
Jennie Jerome Churchill: “Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.”
Audrey Giorgi: “Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.”
Frank Crane: “You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
Harriet Martineau: “Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.”
W. Somerset Maugham: “It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”