Quotes February 11-12, 2025

Even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it.
Etta James,
singer, songwriter
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
If you want to live a life of romantic adventure, then following in the path of conventional wisdom is not going to take you very far.
Tom Robbins,
writer
1932-2025
 
 
 
 
“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 
 
 
 
In the best conversations, you don’t even remember what you talked about, only how it felt.
John Green
 
 
 
 
Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else’s. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.
Jodi Picoult
 
 
 
 
Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A.C. Benson – 1862-1925 – Essayist-Poet
 
 
 
 
Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.
George MacDonald
 
 
 
 
“The best books come from someplace inside. You don’t write because you want to, but because you have to.”
Judy Blume
 
 
 
 
We are in relationship — everything around us is a mirror of ourselves, our internal selves.
Kalyanee Mam
 
 
 
 
Use your smile to change the world, don’t let the world change your smile.
Unknown