The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
~ Albert Einstein
Category: Quotes … Thu
Quote Thursdays
Will Smith on Aristotle
Will Smith is starring in “The Pursuit of Happyness,” and in this article, he says that he read a lot about happiness in preparing for the movie. Will Smith says he liked best what Aristotle said about happiness:
“I’ve been reading a lot about what is happiness, and I feel Aristotle had the best idea,” the 38-year-old actor said while seated in the stately wood-paneled McCormick Room atop Tribune Tower. “He broke it down in the Nicomachean Ethics. Like for me it feels directly and inexorably connected to self-esteem.
“So I always explain it as: Think of yourself as two people, and one of them is inside of you, and he’s a scorekeeper. And he keeps score of your idea of the world. … And when you have a conflict with your scorekeeper, that’s unhappiness. Happiness is being completely in sync” — he slapped his palms together — “with your own perception of goodness.”
Agreed.
What’s your motto?
Here are some great mottos from Motto Magazine’s “What’s your motto?” contest:
Pam
“We don’t attract what we want, we attract what we are.” – Anonymous
Peter Gouveia
My motto: “Live your life with passion so your epitaph will read ‘No Regrets.'”
elizabeth
Life is not greener on the other side.
“life is greenest where you water it most”
Stacie
There is no good or bad, just done and not done.
This is to motivate me to get started when I’m frozen with the fear whatever I do won’t be good enough. If I do it, it can’t be bad.
Skip Reardon
1. Actions speak louder than words.
2. We are what we repeatedly do.
3. Attitude is everything.
Ming Wong
I have two mottoes actually,one of which is attributed to Confucius: Find work which you enjoy, then you wouldn’t have to work a day in your life!
The other one: Everything’s relative. Truly.
And I’ll end today’s quotes with this delightful one that made me smile just to read it!
David R.
Allow room for good things to run wild.
Listen to the Birds
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“Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind – listen to the birds. And don’t hate nobody.†~ Eubie Blake |
Happy Thanksgiving, guys!
Busting Out for the Thing You Most Want to Do
“Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do.”
~ Kathleen Winsor
“Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.”
~ Don Sutton
What if we combine the above two thoughts?
The good life is about…busting your fanny at the thing you most want to do.
This sounds pretty similar to doing first things first, and the rest taking care of itself. Somewhat like walnuts and rice.
Living Beautifully
“Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.”
~ Socrates
I was just thinking about that this week.
Always Doing
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
~ Pablo Picasso
On Habits
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a
single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep
physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path,
we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to
dominate our lives.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
Past the Persona
“When I speak with someone, I like to get past his persona
and speak to the person behind it.”
~ a friend of mine said this this week
ps This is becoming quote week!
Simplicity, Complexity
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
~ Douglas Horton
Potentially Quote Thursdays may be moving to Mondays. We’ll see.