Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - April 06, 2016
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)  
Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
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William Feather (1908 - 1976)  
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
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Doris Lessing  
I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones? The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet.
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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, The Quest, 1995  

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