QOTD - Helen Keller

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

QOTD - Lord Chesterfield

“Swallow all your learning in the morning, but digest it in company in the evenings.” – Lord Chesterfield

QOTD - Roger Staubach

“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach

QOTD - Saint Ambrose

“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.” – Saint Ambrose

QOTD - Sir Isaac Newton

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” – Sir Isaac Newton

QOTD - Mary Oliver

It Was Early

It was early, which has always been my hour to begin looking at the world
and of course, even in the darkness, to begin listening into it,
especially under the pines where the owl lives and sometimes calls out
as I walk by, as he did on this morning. So many gifts!
What do they mean?  In the marshes where the pink light was just arriving
the mink with his bristle tail was stalking the soft-eared mice,
and in the pines the cones were heavy, each one ordained to open.
Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.
Little mink, let me watch you.
Little mice, run and run.
Dear pine cone, let me hold you as you open.

~ Mary Oliver

QOTD - Paulo Coelho

“It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that ours is the only path.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

QOTD - James Dewar

“Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.” – attributed to James Dewar

QOTD - Henry David Throreau

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” - Henry David Throreau

QOTD - Abraham Hicks

“When you focus on the good, the good gets better.” – Abraham Hicks

QOTD - C. S. Lewis

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” – C. S. Lewis

QOTD - James M. Barrie

“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?” – James M. Barrie

QOTD - Proverb

“A good day’s work may be done with a dirty spade.” – Proverb, The Literary Gazette, Section: Original, and Curiosities of Literature, Article: Proverbs and Popular Sayings (August 19, 1848)

QOTD - Helen Keller

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” – Helen Keller

QOTD - Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to the original size.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

QOTD - Robert Ingersoll

“We rise by lifting others.” – Robert Ingersoll

QOTD - Anonymous

“No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of anxiety can change the future.” – Anonymous

QOTD - Lemony Snicket

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” – Lemony Snicket

QOTD - Ernest Hemingway

“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk: That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” – Ernest Hemingway, as recalled by Charles Scribner IV

QOTD - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

QOTD - Dolly Parton

“I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.” – Dolly Parton

QOTD - Phyllis Diller

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” – Phyllis Diller

QOTD - Albert Schweitzer

“The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.” – Albert Schweitzer

QOTD - George Bernard Shaw

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – attributed to George Bernard Shaw

QOTD - John Geiger

“A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset.” – John Geiger

QOTD - Proverb

“East or west home is best.” – Proverb, The Literary Gazette, Section: Original, and Curiosities of Literature, Article: Proverbs and Popular Sayings (August 19, 1848)

QOTD - Epicurus

“Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one’s entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.” – Epicurus

QOTD - The Declaration of Independence

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” - The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America (The Declaration of Independence)

QOTD - John Wesley

“Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.” – John Wesley

QOTD - Horace Mann

“Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.” – Horace Mann

QOTD - Carl Jung

“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.” – Carl Jung