Category: Quotes

Quotes & Memes

Quotes December 21-22, 2024

“We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.”
Carl Sagan
 
 
 
 
If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
Wanda Sykes – Comedian-Actress-Writer
 
 
 
 
“Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.”
Tyra Banks
 
 
 
 
“I believe in the impossible because no one else does and that gives me an excellent chance at accomplishing it.”
Florence Griffith Joyner
 
 
 
 
I believe that filmmaking — as, probably, is everything — is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you’ve got.
Francis Ford Coppola,
filmmaker
 
 
 
 
Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else’s are even tougher.
Cyndi Lauper,
singer, songwriter, activist
 
 
 
 
All talk is lies in a way. Only the doing of a thing can make it true.
Donal Ryan,
writer
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 20, 2024

“I want to record history through the destiny of individuals who often belong to the least wealthy classes”.

“I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer”.

“The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else’s tragedy”.

“In a way, if an individual assumes the risk of placing himself in the middle of a war to communicate to the rest of the world what’s happening, he’s trying to negotiate for peace”.

“The most incomprehensible situation I’ve ever witnessed was Rwanda where we don’t really know how many people died”.

“I saw some massacre sites and I just do not understand how people can do that to each other”.
James Nachtwey, War Photographer

Quotes December 19, 2024

“There is no easy or quick or infallible approach to a secure peace. It is only by patient, persistent, undismayed effort, by trial and error, that peace can be won.”
Ralph Bunche
 
 
 
 
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
 
 
 
“My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.”
Dionne Warwick
 
 
 
 
“Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak–and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 
 
 
 
“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”
King George VI
 
 
 
 
“Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.”
Agnes Moorehead
 
 
 
 
The best time for new beginnings is now.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 18, 2024

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde – 1854-1900 – Poet-Playwright
 
 
 
 
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
“All good ideas start out as bad ideas; that’s why it takes so long.”
Steven Spielberg
 
 
 
 
“Where there is no work, there is no dignity.”
Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis)
 
 
 
 
“Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.”
Margaret Mead
 
 
 
 
“It’s almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.”
Patty Duke
 
 
 
 
“Just knowing you don’t have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn—and those are all good things.”
Dick Van Dyke
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 17, 2024

New forms of evil raise new moral questions. Who is to blame for them?
The worst times, as we see, separate the civilized of the world from the uncivilized.
Lance Morrow,
journalist, essayist, writer
1939-2024
 
 
 
 
The only thing more challenging than pursuing the highest version of yourself is not pursuing the highest version of yourself.
Dan Koe – Freelance Creator
 
 
 
 
Prioritize the uniqueness that make you you, / and the invisible magnet that draws in other like-minded souls / to dance in your orbit.
Donna Ashworth,
poet, writer
 
 
 
 
I think with everything you do, you can take something from it. You can take some more understanding. You learn something.
I can’t remember what’s happening tomorrow, and I can’t remember what happened last week. Sonnets and Shakespeare I can remember.
Judi Dench,
actor
 
 
 
 
The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
Mikhail Baryshnikov,
dancer, choreographer, actor
 
 
 
 
I probably have genius. But no talent.
Francis Ford Coppola,
filmmaker
 
 
 
 
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
Desmond Tutu
 
 
 
 
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 16, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment it grows in, not the flower.”
Alexander Den Heijer
 
 
 
 
“Stay in the moment. The practice of staying present will heal you. Obsessing about how the future will turn out creates anxiety. Replaying broken scenarios from the past causes anger and sadness. Stay here, in this moment.”
Sylvester McNutt
 
 
 
 
“Part of the ingenuity of any addictive drug is to fool you into believing that life without it won’t be as enjoyable”
Alan Carr
 
 
 
 
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”
Steve Jobs
 
 
 
 
“Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.”
Brené Brown
 
 
 
 
“If you force yourself into forgiveness before fully feeling and moving through the layers of anger and hurt, it won’t be a clean and true forgiveness but rather a pseudo-virtuous form of bypassing and suppression.”
Cory Muscara
 
 
 
 
“If you love yourself, it doesn’t matter if other people like you because you don’t need their approval to feel good about yourself.”
“Take a little time to be amazed by something you won’t enjoy unless you consciously choose to focus on it. See the things you can’t see when you’re rushing. Hear the things you can’t hear when you’re stressing. Get so caught up in your senses that everything else seems to stop for a moment—because things don’t actually stop. So we have to be the ones who do it.”
Lori Deschene
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 15, 20242

If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
Dolly Parton
 
 
 
 
… What lies beyond our comfort zone is really extraordinary.
Anne Veh
 
 
 
 
Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don’t learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.
Ronald A. Heifetz
 
 
 
 
Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness.
Ola Joseph
 
 
 
 
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
Happiness is not given to us, nor is misery imposed. At every moment we are at a crossroads and must choose the direction we will take.
Matthieu Ricard
 
 
 
 
The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship, or family, or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.
Maria Popova
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 14, 2024

“A few honest men are better than numbers.”
Oliver Cromwell
 
 
 
 
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
“Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.”
Coolio
 
 
 
 
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.”
Lucy Larcom
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 13, 2024

He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
Robert G. Ingersoll
 
 
 
 
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
John A. Logan
 
 
 
 
Who kept the faith and fought the fight; the glory theirs, the duty ours.
Wallace Bruce
 
 
 
 
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson
 
 
 
 
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 
 
 
 
The more comfort, the less courage there is.
Field Marshal Prince Aleksandr V. Suvorov
 
 
 
 
True patriotism isn’t cheap. It’s about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
Robert Reich
 
 
 
 
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor – and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
Michael N. Castle
 
 
 
 
The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment.
Judd Gregg
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 09-12, 2024

“Truth is a Singular Island surrounded by an infinite Sea of Lies.”
@GregMamishian
 
 
 
 
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Marcel Proust – 1871-1922 – Novelist-Critic-Essayist
 
 
 
 
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.
Plutarch – Greek Philosopher-Historian-Essayist
 
 
 
 
One finds limits by pushing them.
Herbert Simon – 1916-2001 – Political Scientist
 
 
 
 
You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
Stephen King – Author
 
 
 
 

Reminder:
Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is most important.
Junko Tabei – 1939-2016 – Mountaineer-Author-Teacher
 
 
 
 
If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.
Roy T. Bennett – 1939-2014 – Author