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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
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 17, 2025

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
Napoleon Hill
 
 
 
 
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
 
 
 
 
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
 
 
 
 
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine
Anthony J. D’Angelo
 
 
 
 
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
Robert E. Lee
 
 
 
 
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children.
Princess Diana
 
 
 
 
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 02, 2025

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
Albert Einstein, adapted
 
 
 
 
“Even when we fall, we rise again—a little wiser, a little braver, and with a way better story to tell.”
Jessica W. Bowman
 
 
 
 
“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.”
Jack Kornfield
 
 
 
 
“You can plan for a hundred years. But you don’t know what will happen the next moment.”
Tibetan proverb
 
 
 
 
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
Carl Jung
 
 
 
 
“Vulnerability is not oversharing. It’s sharing with people who have earned the right to hear our story.”
“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
 
 
 
 
“Emotions are not problems to be solved. They are signals to be felt.”
Vironika Tugaleva
 
 
 
 
“True healing is not a straight line. It is a spiral. You come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”
Cristie Robbins
 
 
 
 
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I built my life.”
J.K. Rowling
 
 
 
 
“You can rewrite the story. You just have to pick up the pen.”
“The only people who get upset when you set boundaries are the ones who benefited from you having none.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 16, 2025

I would consider our music as like a bouquet of roses in rainbow colors. Just imagine a bouquet of roses with one color. It would be boring, man.
Flaco Jimenez,
singer, songwriter, accordion virtuoso
1939-2025
 
 
 
 
Once in everyone’s life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half asleep.
E. B. White,
writer
 
 
 
 
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett Marden – 1848-1924 – Author
 
 
 
 
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Seneca – BC-65 AD – Philosopher
 
 
 
 
Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Henry Ford – 1863-1947 – Founder of Ford Motor Company
 
 
 
 
If it isn’t a little scary it probably isn’t worth your time.
Ted Murphy – Entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Robert Louis Stevenson,
writer, poet, essayist
 
 
 
 
It was not till quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say: ‘I don’t know.’
W. Somerset Maugham,
writer, playwright
 
 
 
 
Important:
Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.
Jay Samit
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 08, 2025

“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
 
 
 
 
“It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.”
General Norman Schwarzkopf
 
 
 
 
“Honor to the Soldier and Sailor everywhere who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor also to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field, and serves, as he best can, the same cause—honor to him, only less than to him, who braves, for the common good, the storms of heaven and the storms of battle.”
President Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he is vigilant in its preservation.”
General Douglas MacArthur
 
 
 
 
“My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place—police, firefighters, and members of our armed forces.” Sidney Sheldon
 
 
 
 
“The soldier’s heart, the soldier’s spirit, the soldier’s soul, are everything.”
General George C. Marshall
 
 
 
 
“True patriotism isn’t cheap. It’s about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.”
Robert Reich
 
 
 
 
“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.”
Colonel David Hackworth
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 07, 2025

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis Presley,
singer, actor
 
 
 
 
Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.
Jay Samit,
digital media innovator, entrepreneur, writer
 
 
 
 
You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
Steve Jobs,
businessman, inventor, co-founder of Apple
 
 
 
 
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
Anne Frank
 
 
 
 
“The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace—as well as freedom, honor and self-respect—is secure.”
Ralph Bunche
 
 
 
 
“You get to fail a lot before you find your story, and HBO really lets you do that, more than anyone else.”
Mickey Down, co-creator of “Industry”
 
 
 
 
“Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.”
Neil Armstrong on his famous moonwalk
 
 
 
 
“What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing. What does it demand? To become something.”
Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
 
 
 
 
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
Malala Yousafzai
 
 
 
 
“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result … His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.”
Nikola Tesla