I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
Prosperous Life
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
-Wayne Dyer
Looking down
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
– Anonymous
Moving forward
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next.
Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
-Denis Waitley
Seeking the truth
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting. By doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come to the truth.
– Pierre Abelard
Talk about the solution
"There's no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution."
- Betty Williams
- Betty Williams
In the guise of...
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
-James Madison, fourth US president (16 Mar 1751-1836)
Create Opportunities
Weak people wait for opportunities; strong people make them.
- Orison Swett Marden
Common to Great
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.
-Orison Swett Marden
Pi Day (π)
π
Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π. Pi Day is observed on March 14 since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant digits of π. In 2009, the United States House of Representatives supported the designation of Pi Day. Wikipedia
Celebrations: Pie eating, discussions about π
Date: March 14
Frequency: annual
Significance: 3, 1, and 4 are the three most significant figures of π
Related to: Pi Approximation Day
Enemy of truth
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
-Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (14 Mar 1879-1955)
Influencing factor
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
-Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate (13 Mar 1900-1971)
Enough to see
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
-Douglas Adams, writer, dramatist, and musician (11 Mar 1952-2001)
Managing Anger: Logical
If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.
– Harriet Lerner
Managing Anger: Control
A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.
– Proverbs 29:11
Managing Anger: Feeding it
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
– Epictetus
Managing Anger: Patient
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
– Chinese Proverb
Happy Women's Day
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
-Gene Fowler, journalist and author (8 Mar 1890-1960)
Attention to plants
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
-Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926)
Time to make MAN
It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!
-George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist (1904-1968)
Path of fulfilment
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfilment.
-Earl Nightingale
Know where to find
We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.
-Tzvetan Todorov, philosopher (b. 1 Mar 1939)
Willpower to
"Even the intelligent investor is likely to need considerable willpower to keep from following the CROWD"
- Bebnjamin Graham
Attitude: Magical connect...
"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change."
-Earl Nightingale
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