QOTD May 13 2015
May 13th, 2015 on 10:24Jean Houston: “We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.”
Jean Houston: “We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.”
Bernadette Peters: “You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?”
Robert J. Sawyer: “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
Martha Burgess: “Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else’s.”
Catherine de Hueck: “With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.”
Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran: “If you continue to expend your energy trying to change things that don’t really matter in the long run or that are not within your sphere of influence, you’ll wind up exhausted and frustrated, with no positive results to show for your effort.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.”
Charles de Gaulle: “We may go to the moon, but that’s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.”
Dr. Thomas Dooley: “Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.”
E. B. White: “I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”
John Muir: “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
John Green: “The best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.”
Mason Cooley: “Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.”
Nelson Mandela: “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
W. Somerset Maugham: “Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.”
Larry Page: “You know what it’s like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don’t have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.”
Aristotle: “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
Margot Fonteyn: “If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?”
Al Capp: “Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.”
Robert Fripp: “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”