Sunday, October 31, 2010

quote of the day - sailing away from safe harbors

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.Dream. Discover"


-- MARK TWAIN

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Friday, October 29, 2010

quote of the day - problem resolution

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
- John Steinbeck

Thursday, October 28, 2010

quote of the day - living your best

"You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."
- Harriet Martineau

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

quote of the day - a good life is long enough

"A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough."
- Benjamin Franklin

Monday, October 25, 2010

quote of the day - the word that frees us

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
- Sophocles

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Saturday, October 23, 2010

quote of the day - great minds

"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Friday, October 22, 2010

quote of the day - losing your woes

"The world has cares enough to plague us; but he who meditates on others' woes shall, in that meditation, lose his own."
- Cumberland

Thursday, October 21, 2010

quote of the day - impelling faith

"It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action....Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it."
- Dr. Alexis Carrel

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Monday, October 18, 2010

Sunday, October 17, 2010

quote of the day - Hope sees the invisible

"Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible."


- Anon

Saturday, October 16, 2010

quote of the day - the happiest of people

"Who is the happiest of men?  He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own."
- Johann von Goethe

Friday, October 15, 2010

quote of the day - belief vs interest

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."
- Peter Marshall

Thursday, October 14, 2010

quote of the day - mastery and the butterfly

"What the student calls a tragedy, the master calls a butterfly."
- Richard Bach

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

quote of the day - focusing ambitions

"Acting was a way out at first.  A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions.  And the ambition wasn't for fame.  The ambition was to do an interesting job."
- Harrison Ford

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

quote of the day - make your weather

"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits."
- Fulton J. Sheen

Monday, October 11, 2010

quote of the day - strength of your passion

"If we resist our passions, it is more from their weekness than from our strength."
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Saturday, October 9, 2010

quote of the day - achieving the impossible

"We could accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."
- C. Malesherbez

Friday, October 8, 2010

quote of the day - chisel vs artist

"Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?"
- J.C.F. von Schiller

Thursday, October 7, 2010

quote of the day - our destiny

"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny.  But what we put into it is ours."
- Dag Hammarskjold

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

quote of the day - everything changes

"You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in."
- Heraclitus

Monday, October 4, 2010

quote of the day - losing yourself

"It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something."
- Paul Goodman

Sunday, October 3, 2010

quote of the day - responsible action

"Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous."
- Wendell Berry

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Friday, October 1, 2010

quote of the day - results

"Results?  Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results.  I know several thousand things that won't work."
- Thomas A. Edison