Quotes February 11, 2024

Sometimes the mistakes are the ones that get you the gig.
Carl Weathers,
actor, professional American football player
1948-2024
 
 
 
 
The whole process of mental adjustment and atonement can be summed up in one word, gratitude.
Wallace Wattles – 1860-1911 – Writer
 
 
 
 
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.” – Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne
 
 
 
 
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll
 
 
 
 
“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”
Gertrude Stein
 
 
 
 
“We need the courage of the young… May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on… you’re wasting your life.”
Jackie Robinson
 
 
 
 
“Life is a magical thing.”
Laurel Clark, astronaut and medical doctor aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia
 
 
 
 
“When you hate, the only person that is suffering is you because most of the people you hate don’t know it and the rest don’t care.”
Medgar Evers
 
 
 
 
“We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”
Arthur Ashe
 
 
 
 
“Only the gentle are ever really strong.”
James Dean
 
 
 
 
“It is a little dark still, but there are warnings of the day and somewhere out of the darkness, a bird is singing to the Dawn.”
Excerpt from Representative American Negroes, an essay by Paul Laurence Dunbar
 
 
 
 
“Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don’t be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.”
Shirley Temple