Quotes July 11, 2021

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Diane Sawyer – American Broadcast Journalist
 
 
 
 
“We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isn’t always strength that makes you stay. Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny.”
Zoraida Cordova
 
 
 
 
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.”
Jesse Owens
 
 
 
 
“It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.”
Howard Bloom
 
 
 
 
“For the first three months, I place each student at a table with a thousand pieces of white paper and a trash can underneath. Every day they have to sit at the table for several hours and write ideas. They put the ideas they like on the right side of the table; the ones they don’t like, they put in the trash. But we don’t throw out the trash. After three months, I only take the ideas from the trash can. I don’t even look at the ideas they liked. Because the trash can is a treasure trove of things they’re afraid to do.”
Life Lessons from Marina Abramović
 
 
 
 
You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else’s point of view.
Penelope Cruz,
actor
 
 
 
 
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust,
writer, critic, essayist
 
 
 
 
When we live our lives everyday, we’re met by opportunities, and most of us don’t even recognize them.
I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.
Scarlett Johansson,
actor
 
 
 
 
Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.
Leo Tolstoy,
writer