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Quotes July 01, 2026

The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.
B.B. King

When we focus on the simple joys that arise every day — we stop the endless search for more, and we find there is enough.
Remember to nurture yourself today with something that brings you joy — a song, a walk, the simplicity of silence. You are loved.
Somewhere in adulthood, many of us forget the essential art of imagination. But our inner child still remembers how to linger, to wonder, to sit quietly with a thought and let it unfold into a world.
AmyAnn Cadwell

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Kahlil Gibran

Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things are.
Marianne Williamson

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
Carlos Santana

Everyone has the capacity for joy. Joy is available to all of us.
Ross Gay

We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell

Cling to joy: audacious and unbridled joy, that looks for light in everything, even in your waiting.
Morgan Harper Nichols

There’s no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Motivational speaker and business coach Tony Robbins

Quotes June 03, 2026

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha


 
 
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”
Hermann Hesse

“It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part.”
BoJack Horseman

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
Carl Jung

“Emotional abuse is any pattern of behavior that undermines a person’s sense of self-worth and reality.”
Beverly Engel

“One of the hardest things I’ve had to understand is that closure comes from within. Especially difficult if you’ve been betrayed by someone you love because you feel like you gotta let them know the pain they caused, but the peace you seek can only be given to you by you.”
Bruna Nessif

“True belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world. Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”
Brené Brown

“Love life more than the meaning of it? Yes, certainly.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Sometimes we fall for the same mistakes because we haven’t learned to love ourselves fully.”
Unknown

Quotes June 01, 2026

Forgiving isn’t something you do for someone else. It’s something you do for yourself. It’s saying, “You’re not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.” It’s saying, “You don’t get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”
Jodi Picoult

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln

Take forgiveness slowly. Don’t blame yourself for being slow. Peace will come.
Yoko Ono

Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love.
Fred Rogers

Quotes May 29, 2026

To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage single-handed in an unprecedented duel with nature — could anyone dream of anything greater than that?
Yuri Gagarin

The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Donald Williams, NASA astronaut

To become an astronaut is not a question of being the best at something or things coming easy to you, but it’s being a person that can work with others and not give up.
Michael J Massimino, NASA astronaut

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire — the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.
Ellen Ochoa, NASA astronaut and first Latina woman to go to space

Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of flame outside the windows. I’m trying to memorize, fix all the feelings, the peculiarities of this descending, to tell those who will be conquering space after me.
Valentina Tereshkova, Russian cosmonaut and first woman in space

Life is full of so many small, unexpected pleasures, not just in space but right here on Earth, and I think I see them more clearly now than I used to because microgravity insists you pay attention.
Chris Hadfield, Canadian Space Agency astronaut

Space is for everybody. It’s not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That’s our new frontier out there, and it’s everybody’s business to know about space.
Christa McAuliffe, teacher and astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

Every generation has the obligation to free men’s minds for a look at new worlds … to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.
Ellison S. Onizuka, NASA astronaut and first Asian American in space

Curiosity is the essence of our existence.
I often tell young kids, and particularly my grandkids, don’t ever count yourself out. You’ll never know how good you are until you try. Dream the impossible and then go out and make it happen. I walked on the moon. What can’t you do?
Gene Cernan, NASA astronaut and the last person to walk on the moon

If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty — and do much more.
Ron Garan, NASA astronaut

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul … we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
There are great ideas undiscovered, breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of truth’s protective layers. There are places to go beyond belief.
Neil Armstrong, NASA astronaut

Let me say, as I sit here before you today having walked on the moon, that I am myself still awed by that miracle. That awe, in me and in each of us … must be the engine of future achievement, not a slow dimming light from a time once bright.
One truth I have discovered for sure: When you believe that all things are possible and you are willing to work hard to accomplish your goals, you can achieve the next “impossible” dream. No dream is too high!
Buzz Aldrin, NASA astronaut

Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They’re really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
Mae Jemison, NASA astronaut and first Black woman in space

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.
Kalpana Chawla, NASA astronaut and first woman of Indian origin in space

I chased my dreams. In the end, find what gets you excited and chase it.
Guion Bluford, NASA astronaut and the first Black American to go to space

Know what it is that drives you, motivates you and pursue it. Endeavor to work to make it happen.
Peggy Whitson, NASA astronaut

Quotes May 28, 2026

“I’m adaptable. I don’t need the day to go perfectly to make it a good one.”

“It’s not my job to tell myself no. The world will offer plenty of obstacles. I don’t need to add to them. My mind is my friend. I am my own biggest believer.”

“I try to live to a standard, not the circumstances of the day. Some days it is easy. Some days it is hard. But I do it either way because that’s who I want to be, not because it is always easy to do.”
James Clear

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.
Leo Tolstoy

“The best revenge is not to be like that.”
Marcus Aurelius

“Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.
I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”
W. H. Murray,
Scottish mountaineer and writer

Quotes December 09, 2025

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

 
 
 
 

“Turn down the volume of your negative inner voice and create a nurturing inner voice to take its place.”
Beverly Engel
 
 
 
 
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
Virginia Woolf
 
 
 
 
“Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and myself at the same time.”
Prentis Hemphill
 
 
 
 
“As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, the wise are not shaken by praise or blame.”
The Dhammapada, Verse 81
 
 
 
 
“What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
 
 
 
 
“I was constantly seeking a balance between mourning what’s already been lost, making space for the time and moments we still had left, and making sense of this complicated process that felt like my heart was split between two contrasting realities: hope and heartbreak.”
Liz Newman
 
 
 
 
“Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
Eddie Cantor
 
 
 
 
“Finally, I realized that I was never asking too much. I was just asking the wrong person.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes the strongest thing you can do is to ask for help.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 20, 2025

Books are medicine. What heals me may not be the right prescription for anyone else.
Sandra Cisneros,
poet, writer
Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
The greatest thing you have is your self image, a positive opinion of yourself. You must never let anyone take it from you.
Jaime Escalante,
educator
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
I hope to continue to inspire our nation’s youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.
I’ll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor.
Ellen Ochoa,
astronaut
Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
This life takes a lot more courage than I ever gave it credit for.
Junot Diaz,
writer, educator, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez,
singer-songwriter, musician, activist
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 19, 2025

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
writer, essayist, journalist
 
 
 
 
In life as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don’t foul and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.,
politician, 26th president of the United States
 
 
 
 
It’s a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘Try to be a little kinder.’
Aldous Huxley,
writer, philosopher
 
 
 
 
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw,
playwright, critic, activist, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
 
 
 
 
I had no orders or restrictions on how to ride Secretariat. The riding decisions were mine.
Ron Turcotte,
thoroughbred race horse jockey who rode Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973
1941-2025
 
 
 
 
An actor is unfortunate if he doesn’t get to spend a lot of time on stage. When you’re on stage, you get to practice every night.
Polly Holliday,
actor
1937-2025
 
 
 
 
When I was young, I wanted to go everywhere and be everyone, and with this work, I have. I was blonde, I was brunette, I was a princess. … I was everything.
You are not yourself in front of the camera. You can live many lives, instead of one. I think I’ve been lucky.
Claudia Cardinale,
actor
1938-2025
 
 
 
 
I’m always careful. I check, I double-check, and I re-double-check. Sometimes my mind may wander, but my eyes are always wide open.
William Steig,
writer, illustrator, cartoonist
 
 
 
 
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
Rene Descartes,
philosopher, scientist, mathematician
 
 
 
 
It’s true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.
Giannina Braschi,
writer, poet
 
 
 
 
Language will continue to put the world into words.
Annie Ernaux,
writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature
 
 
 
 
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
John Irving,
writer
 
 
 
 
It’s important to hear those words: ‘You’re doing great. It’s all going to be OK.’
Lola Tung,
actor
 
 
 
 
If an idea’s worth having once, it’s worth having twice.
At least we can still count on self-interest as a predictable factor.
Tom Stoppard,
playwright, screenwriter
 
 
 
 
Live, work, act. Don’t sit here and brood.
Henrik Ibsen,
playwright
 
 
 
 
If you feel deeply and know how to express what you feel, you make others feel.
Amy Beach,
composer, pianist
 
 
 
 
One of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.
Annie Proulx,
writer, journalist
 
 
 
 
FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again … even though every time you’ve tried before, you’ve lost.
Taylor Swift,
singer, songwriter
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 18, 2025

I don’t think coincidences happen in this life — I think things happen for a reason. We have a choice to listen or not.
Jane Goodall,
primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist
1934-2025
 
 
 
 
I’ve never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I’ve never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.
There have been times between action and cut when I’ve sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven’t been familiar with before.
Terence Stamp,
actor
1938-2025
 
 
 
 
I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.
Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.
Greg Iles,
writer
1960-2025
 
 
 
 
Stories become legends. And legends become … whatever they become.
Graham Greene,
actor
1952-2025
 
 
 
 
I’m interested in that thing that happens where there’s a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there’s no sign that it’s going to get any better, and that’s the point when people quit. But some don’t.
Robert Redford,
actor, director, producer
1936-2025
 
 
 
 
What has stayed the same is my desire to express myself. Because in this rapidly changing world, you can be influenced, dragged in one direction or another, and lose your own identity.
Giorgio Armani,
fashion designer
1934-2025
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 02, 2025

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

 
 
 
 

“Rest and be thankful.”
William Wordsworth
 
 
 
 
“To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be.”
Jack Kornfield
 
 
 
 
“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
Alan Watts
 
 
 
 
“I will not let the bullies and critics of my early life win by joining and agreeing with them.”
Pete Walker
 
 
 
 
“You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.”
Timber Hawkeye
 
 
 
 
“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”
Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes you have to let go of the life you planned to make room for the life that’s waiting for you.”
Joseph Campbell
 
 
 
 
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
Audre Lorde
 
 
 
 
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
W.E.B. Du Bois
 
 
 
 
“It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.”
Donna Goddard
 
 
 
 
“The body keeps the score. If the memory of trauma is encoded in the viscera, in heartbreaking and gut-wrenching sensations, then our first priority is to help people ‘feel’ what their bodies are telling them.”
Bessel van der Kolk
 
 
 
 
“Being present for your own life is the most radical act of self-compassion you can offer yourself.”
Sylvia Boorstein
 
 
 
 
“AI accidentally made me believe in the concept of a human soul by showing me what art looks like without it.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“And then I realized that to be seen by others, I first had to be willing to see myself.”
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
“You can’t heal what you won’t allow yourself to feel.”
Unknown