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Quotes August 04, 2024

When you understand giving, when you understand receiving, you understand that it is all self-organizing. You just have to dance, and in some moments you’re asked to give and in some moments you are asked to receive, but your ultimate prerogative is to just dance.
Nipun Mehta
 
 
 
 
The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further.
Joanna Macy
 
 
 
 
There is a kind of insubstantiality to clouds, and a softness, a yielding…. In a way, everything is a cloud.
Rick Hanson
 
 
 
 
Spiritual literacy is recognizing the sacred in everything around us. Everything around you and everything you do has spiritual significance. The point is that it’s all around us. You just have to have the eyes to see.
Mary Ann Brussat
 
 
 
 
A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.
Zen Shin
 
 
 
 
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Quotes August 03, 2024

“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
John Wooden
 
 
 
 
“If you don’t believe in yourself, why is anyone else going to believe in you?”
Tom Brady
 
 
 
 
“Look for the good, look for the joy, look for the love, and it will find you.”
AGAPI STASSINOPOULOS
 
 
 
 
“You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
JOJO MOYES, ME BEFORE YOU
 
 
 
 
“They say everything happens for a reason. I don’t know if that’s true, but I do know everything happens, and it’s up to you to maximize the reality of your situation.”
KEN JEONG
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 02, 2024

“I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world.”
General Douglas MacArthur
 
 
 
 
“Retreat Hell! We’re just attacking in another direction.”
Major General Oliver P. Smith
 
 
 
 
“The Marine Corps is proud of the fact that it is a force of combined arms, and it jealously guards the integrity of its air-ground team.”
General Keith B. McCutcheon
 
 
 
 
“We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess.”
Gen. James L. Jones
 
 
 
 
“I love the Corps for those intangible possessions that cannot be issued: pride, honor, integrity, and being able to carry on the traditions for generations of warriors past.”
Cpl. Jeff Sornig
 
 
 
 
“Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines.”
Eugene B. Sledge
 
 
 
 
“Once a Marine, always a Marine!”
MSgt Paul Woyshner
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 01, 2024

Word by word, story by story, for better or worse, we build our world.
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
Sam Keen,
writer, philosopher
 
 
 
 
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
Laozi
 
 
 
 
“Whoever is not in the possession of leisure can hardly be said to possess independence.”
Herman Melville
 
 
 
 
“Talent without effort is wasted talent. And while effort is the one thing you can control in your life, applying that effort intelligently is next on the list.”
Mark Cuban
 
 
 
 
“Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.”
Roy T. Bennett
 
 
 
 
“With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.”
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“Worthy now. Not if. Not when. We are worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.”
Brené Brown
 
 
 
 
“We are the brightest star of our sky though we often fail to notice our own brilliance in the presence of others’ light.”
E.L.Blade
 
 
 
 
“Your problem is you are too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
Ram Dass
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 31, 2024

“Self-care is soothing nourishment for your mind, heart, and body. It should feel accessible and comforting, like melted peanut butter on toasted bread.”
TON MAK
 
 
 
 
“One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy, and one of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.”
GRETCHEN RUBIN
 
 
 
 
Be grateful for what you have and be ready to share it when the time comes.
Michelle Obama – Former First Lady of the United States-Author-Attorney
 
 
 
 
The details, that’s what the world is made of.
Wes Anderson,
filmmaker
 
 
 
 
When you find your heroes as a kid, they stay with you forever.
Maya Rudolph,
actor, comedian
 
 
 
 
“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
Christopher Reeve
 
 
 
 
We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life’s continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.
Stephen Jay Gould
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 30, 2024

“Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.”
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
 
 
 
 
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
Jane Howard
 
 
 
 
It was the most beautiful scene — a feeling that we’re all in this together.
Theresa Pathak
 
 
 
 
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
Somewhere along the way, I think I’ve made the decision: I’m going to write in my own handwriting.
Wes Anderson,
filmmaker
 
 
 
 

The way you live is your message to the world. Make sure it inspires.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 29, 2024

I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine; I insist on color.
Charles Bowden,
journalist, writer
 
 
 
 
“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”
Vincent van Gogh
 
 
 
 
Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.
Simon Sinek – Author-Speaker
 
 
 
 
“No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.”
George Washington Carver
 
 
 
 
It’s wild that when you decide you’re worth more, the Universe starts opening doors to make it a reality.
Cory Allen – Podcaster-Meditation Teacher-Audio Engineer
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 28, 2024

Life isn’t perfect, any failures you have are actually learning moments. They teach us how to grow and evolve.
Phillipa Soo – Actress-Singer
 
 
 
 
Kindness is free, so sprinkle that stuff everywhere.
Wavy Gravy
 
 
 
 
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Mother Teresa
 
 
 
 
To know a tree best, it’s important to move beyond biology and to the emotions and sensations it stirs. Beauty as a branch of biology is underrated.
Daniel Lewis
 
 
 
 
We need a nobler economics not afraid to discuss spirit and conscience, moral purpose and the meaning of life.
Theodore Roszak
 
 
 
 
The most fundamental feature of the universe is information — other physical qualities are more like incidentals.
John Wheeler
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 27, 2024

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir – 1838-1914 – Author
 
 
 
 
The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run.
Ben Bradlee,
journalist, newspaper editor
 
 
 
 
I don’t want to find the secret. I’m afraid all the joy will go out of it if I find the secret.
Bob Newhart
 
 
 
 
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
Warren Buffett
 
 
 
 
“I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.”
Bob Hope
 
 
 
 
“You write your life story by the choices you make.”
Dame Helen Mirren
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 26, 2024

“A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago – there’s no such thing as a former Marine. You’re a Marine, just in a different uniform and you’re in a different phase of your life. But you’ll always be a Marine because you went to Parris Island, San Diego or the hills of Quantico. There’s no such thing as a former Marine.”
General James F. Amos
 
 
 
 
“Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‘defeat’.”
Jim Mattis
 
 
 
 
“It was the Marines who taught me how to act. After that, pretending to be rough wasn’t so hard.”
Lee Marvin
 
 
 
 
“I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.”
Oliver North
 
 
 
 
“Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.”
Ned Dolan
 
 
 
 
“Thousands of Marine combat veterans earned medals for bravery every day. A few were even awarded.”
Unknown