Category: Quotes

Quotes & Memes

Quotes January 22, 2025

Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper.
David Lynch,
filmmaker, artist
1946-2025
 
 
 
 
It’s a good thing I had no direction. I might have given up.
Jules Feiffer,
cartoonist, writer, illustrator, screenwriter, Pulitzer Prize recipient
1929-2025
 
 
 
 
The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.
Carl Jung
 
 
 
 
“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.”
Margaret J. Wheatley
 
 
 
 
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection.
From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
Peter Drucker
 
 
 
 
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Thomas Edison
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 21, 2025

“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
 
 
 
 
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
 
 
 
 
“Failure is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign that you are alive and growing.”
Buzz Aldrin
 
 
 
 
“The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
Cecil B. DeMille
 
 
 
 
Words are windows, or they’re walls, They sentence us, or set us free. When I speak and when I hear, Let the love light shine through me.
Ruth Bebermeyer
 
 
 
 
In times such as these, it is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream — the failure is to fall short of dreaming all that we might realize.
Dee Hock
 
 
 
 
Reminders:
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 20, 2025

Libraries are not about books, they’re about people.
Skye Patrick
 
 
 
 
When you commit an act of violence, you are basically disconnecting yourself. You are putting yourself outside the circle.
John Malloy
 
 
 
 
Sing, sing a song. Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don’t worry that it’s not good enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song.
Joe Raposo
 
 
 
 
Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.
Nicole Reed
 
 
 
 
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
…it must be one of the tasks of poets to make visible all the invisible connected threads that draw us together, to disclose the intricate web of life as a sentient whole.
Peter Abbs
 
 
 
 
There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.
Mary Anne Radmacher
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 19, 2025

“Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you—a part that’s so true, so real, people think it must have happened to you.”
Ray Charles
 
 
 
 
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
Katharine Hepburn
 
 
 
 
And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done…
Rainer Maria Rilke
 
 
 
 
When we recognize the wholeness and strength within ourselves, and act from that place of deep inner knowing, our lives naturally get better.
Scott Lennox
 
 
 
 
There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.
Bernard Meltzer
 
 
 
 
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
John Maxwell – Coach-Author
 
 
 
 
Reminders:
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

Do something now that will make the person you’ll be tomorrow proud.
Unknown

 
 
 
 

Quotes January 18, 2025

“It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.”
Truman Capote
 
 
 
 
“Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don’t really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.”
Althea Gibson
 
 
 
 
“Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.”
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
 
 
 
 
“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
Christopher Reeve
 
 
 
 
“Follow your enthusiasm. It’s something I’ve always believed in. Find those parts of your life you enjoy the most. Do what you enjoy doing.”
Jim Henson
 
 
 
 
“We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.”
Rudyard Kipling
 
 
 
 
“Friendship is a priceless gift that cannot be bought nor sold, but its value is far greater than a mountain made of gold.”
Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
Always see positive in everything, whenever the going gets tough, understand there is something good going to happen.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 17, 2025

In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
Neil Armstrong
 
 
 
 
If you’re faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.
Bob Hoover
 
 
 
 
You can’t just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.
Chuck Hagel
 
 
 
 
I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.
Hugh Shelton
 
 
 
 
Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship’s fire, when it comes to deterring a crisis. And the ships and Marines may not have to do anything but lie offshore. It is hard to lie offshore with a C-141 or C-130 full of airborne troops.
Colin Powell
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 16, 2025

“I’ve come to the conclusion that life is for the taking and just too short to dwell on the negative.”
Dolores O’Riordan
 
 
 
 
There’s a big difference between empty fatigue and gratifying exhaustion. Life is too short not to focus more on what matters most.
Marc and Angel
 
 
 
 
The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.
Roy T. Bennett – 1939-2014 – Author
 
 
 
 
“You are perfectly cast in your life. I can’t imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda
 
 
 
 
“Work often becomes a substitute for living. But I think the most successful artists, and the happiest people, find a fullness in both areas.”
Faye Dunaway
 
 
 
 
“What strikes me is that there’s a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.”
Andrew Lloyd Webber, musical composer of “Cats”
 
 
 
 
“We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 14-15, 2025

We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer – 1876-1967 – Former Chancellor of Germany
 
 
 
 
“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.”
Thomas Berger
 
 
 
 
Because you suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive. The potential.
Katharine Hepburn,
actor
 
 
 
 
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
Eileen Caddy – 1917-2006 – Author
 
 
 
 
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Desiderius Erasmus – 1466-1536 – Theologian
 
 
 
 
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
Galileo Galilei
 
 
 
 
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
John Muir
 
 
 
 
It’s our imperfections that make us vulnerable, make us interesting.
The important thing is not to be defined by what others think of you.
Steve Coogan,
actor, comedian, producer, screenwriter
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 12-13, 2025

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“Create a safe space within yourself that no one will ever find, somewhere the madness of this world can never touch.”
Christy Ann Martine
 
 
 
 
“It takes strength and self-love to say goodbye to what no longer serves you.”
Rumi
 
 
 
 
“We rescue people from their responsibilities. We take care of people’s responsibilities for them. Later we get mad at them for what we’ve done. Then we feel used and sorry for ourselves. That is the pattern, the triangle.”
Melody Beattie
 
 
 
 
“Some people are empowered by travel and some are inspired by the warmth of home. Some thrive in the spotlight and some feel called to support those who are on stage. Some people are comfortable half-dressed and cussing like sailors and others prefer modesty and gentleness. The thing is: we are all empowered and inspired in different ways, and it’s not our job to decide what that looks like for anyone else.”
Brooke Hampton
 
 
 
 
“Your greatest contribution to the universe may not be something you do, but someone you raise.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 11, 2025

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau – 1817-1862 – Essayist
 
 
 
 
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
Vincent Van Gogh
 
 
 
 
“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”
Dag Hammarskjöld
 
 
 
 
“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”
Victor Hugo
 
 
 
 
“When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can’t move forward.”
Mary J. Blige
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Robin Williams – 1951-2014 – Comedian-Actor
 
 
 
 
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
Albert Schweitzer