D.D. Discovers Quotes
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Choose the Meaning You Give
I don't any longer think that it's possible that other people can hurt me. They are just giving me their observation and I'm giving it meaning. And so I get to choose what that meaning is. - Rita Bridenstine
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
We All Want the Same Thing
We live in different spaces, different parts of the country, have different goals but ultimately we all want the same thing. We want to know that we matter. We want to know that we were heard and that what we had to say meant something. Whether you're talking to your boss, whether you're talking to friends, everybody and every conversations, and particularly in every arguments and disagreements just want to know, "did you hear me?" and "did what I say mean anything to you?". - Oprah Winfrey
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Celebrate Your Independence
This month, I celebrate my own independence. I choose to be free of all negativity, anger, fear, insecurities, jealousies--and any thought that makes me feel "less than." I no longer choose to live in the prison of my mind. I choose thoughts of love, joy, prosperity, and unlimited creativity and opportunities. - Louise L. Hay
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Vision
"That's because I micro-manage, I will be on top of every single thing so that nothing goes wrong. It's not just because my money is in it. It's because it's my vision and I can't bear to see it go any other way." - Michelle Chong (Actress, model, writer, director, producer and founder of Huat Films)
Silence and Words
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words." Elbert Hubbard (American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher)
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
The Insecure Ones
"To the insecure ones, the world is always against them. Everyone seems to owe them something. No matter how much good intentions and assurances given, they will never be enough. Until they are able to feel secure at their own time, don't let them affect your sanity. Your response is not controlled by how loud they shout out their insecurities. But by how much control you have over your own mind and emotion." - D.D.
Friday, June 10, 2011
A Star of Happiness
"Each of us keeps at the bottom of his heart a memory which does not want to die. It is the sound of a footfall, the sound of a voice, a name or a smile. Each of us keeps at the bottom of his hearts a star of happiness." - Guy de Maupassant
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Refuse to be Reduced
I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it. - Maya Angelou
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Flame
“Flame is a fickle mistress.” Mozzie, White Collar
Monday, June 6, 2011
Good Points of Others
"It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones." - Francoise Sagan (French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter)
Monday, May 30, 2011
Why & Why Not
Life's two most important questions are "why" and "why not". The trick is knowing which one to ask. - Shania Twain
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Divert the Sadness
"The idea here is not to divert the sadness, but to give it a context from life other than what is making you sad. Just as a ginger can lose its bitterness when baked in bread, sadness can be leavened by other life. When feeling the sharpness of being sad or hurt, it helps to take new things in. This pours the water of life on the fire of the heart. So when exhausted from expressing all that hurt, listen to music you’ve never heard of, or ask someone to tell you an old story from before your birth, or take a drive down a road near a ridge you’ve always meant to look out from. Look with your sad eyes on things new to you that will give you something to do with your sadness. Your sadness is the paint. You must find a canvas." - T.H. White
Monday, May 23, 2011
Choose to Inhale
"Choose to inhale; do not breathe simply to exist. That's not always easy but it is always worthy." - Final sentences of Mattie Stepanek on his dying bed.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Every Bad
"And yet to every bad there is a worse."
- Thomas Hardy
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Money and Happiness
Money truly can't buy happiness, especially if you're unhappy to begin with. "If you are worrying about vegetables now, you'll be worrying about yachts then," - Jacob Needleman
Praise and Blame
Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.
- Edmund Gosse
- Edmund Gosse
Friday, May 13, 2011
Do Better
"Do better if possible, and that is always possible..." - Francois Constantin, Turin, Italy, 1819
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Inspiration and Work
"Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it." - Madeline L'Engle
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Selflessness of Nature
"Even after all this time. The sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with A love like that. It lights the whole sky." - Hafiz of Persia
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