Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - January 17, 2017
I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family.
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Madeleine Albright (1937 - ), Making Sense of the Unimaginable, O Magazine  
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)  
My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.
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Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05  
There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908  

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