October 14, 2014

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923):

“Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."

and

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”

and

“I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.”

and

“When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969):

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”

and

“Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.”

and

“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.”

and

“No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.”

e e cummings (1894 - 1962):

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

and

“To be nobody but

yourself in a world

which is doing its best day and night to make you like

everybody else means to fight the hardest battle

which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”

and

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”

John Wooden (1910 - 2010):

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

and

“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”

and

“Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it.”

and

"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings and the feelings of others before your own rights."

Natalie Maines (1974 - ):

"It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her

Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger"