Quotes February 08, 2024

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
Madam C. J. Walker,
entrepreneur, philanthropist, activist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
After so many years of doing a character who is indelible, who is so well recognized around the world … what happens is very often people begin to confuse you with the character.
Carl Weathers,
actor, professional American football player
1948-2024
 
 
 
 
What would happen to our view of time if we could better see our wheres?
Jenny Odell
 
 
 
 
I love a broad margin to my life.
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.
Jessica Howell – Actress
 
 
 
 
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho – Author
 
 
 
 
Slowing down is not a function of speed. It is a function of awareness, and I don’t want to make awareness a mental construct. It’s a function of presence.
Bayo Akomolafe
 
 
 
 
All truths wait in all things,
They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
The insignificant is as big to me as any,
(What is less or more than a touch?)
Walt Whitman
 
 
 
 
All over, the countryside opens up into crackings and creakings, into a boiling of healthy new life.
It’s as if we were inside a huge honeycomb of light which was also the interior of an immense, flaming-hot rose.
Juan Ramón Jiménez