Category: Quotes

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Quotes July 25, 2024

A better-informed world is a better world. … Leave it just a little bit better than it was when you found it.
Ben Bradlee,
journalist, newspaper editor
 
 
 
 
“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.”
MOHSIN HAMID
 
 
 
 
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
 
 
 
 
You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.
Michelle Obama
 
 
 
 
Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.
Mandy Hale
 
 
 
 
Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.
Anonymous
 
 

Quotes July 23, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha


 
 
“Embrace the glorious mess that you are.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
 
 
 
 
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
Rumi
 
 
 
 
“One of the greatest awakenings comes when you realize that not everybody changes. Some people never change. And that’s their journey. It’s not yours to try to fix for them.”
Unknown
 
 
“Dear self: Don’t get so worked up over things you can’t change or people you can’t change. It’s not worth the anger buildup or the heartache. Control only what you can. Let go. Love me.” Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 22, 2024

A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
Angela Merkel – Chancellor of Germany
 
 
 
 
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
e.e. cummings
 
 
 
 
“Once you start questioning the bad stuff that comes your way, you have to start questioning the good—and I wouldn’t trade the good for anything.”
Stuart Scott
 
 
 
 
“We all need to learn to become comfortable with ourselves as early as possible, and to grasp that we are responsible for who we are.”
Gisele Bündchen
 
 
 
 
“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. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
Steve Jobs
 
 
 
 
“The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.”
Alex Trebek
 
 

Quotes July 21, 2024

As global citizens, it is incumbent upon us to express global citizenship. We must also recognize the fundamental human responsibility we share, which is to practice making conscious the dark energies of human suffering so that those energies can be digested, integrated, and returned to the life flow of future potential.
Thomas Hubl
 
 
 
 
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
Hippocrates
 
 
 
 
The ability to flexibly move between states is a sign of well-being and resilience.
Deb Dana
 
 
 
 
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.
Henry Winkler
 
 
 
 

Reminder:
Words do have power. Names have power. Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it.
Ursula Le Guin
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 20, 2024

Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
 
 
 
 
It is up to us to welcome the unexpected and surprising joys offered around every corner.
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 
 
 
A person’s a person, no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss
 
 
 
 
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Susan Sarandon
 
 
 
 
Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
 
 
 
 
In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.
Pico Iyer
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 19, 2024

“I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold.”
(First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, USMC, 96th Co., Soissons, 19 July 1918.)
 
 
 
 
“They (Women Marines) don’t have a nickname, and they don’t need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.”
(Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb, USMC, 1943.)
 
 
 
 
“I can at least go out and defend my country and do something honorable as a father. Show my son something good.”
Joshua Hernandez, who joined after 9/11, and deployed to Iraq twice
 
 
 
 
“I just wanted to do something to support those young people.”
Matthew Niblack, a Vietnam-era Navy veteran who joined the National Guard as a sergeant with an age wavier in his early 50s and deployed to Kuwait.
 
 
 
 
“This is all normal, routine stuff. Dude with the AK that I shot in the street? That’s routine. The dudes digging an IED? That’s an everyday occurrence.”
An Army lieutenant whose platoon I embedded with in Iraq in 2007
 
 
“What can we do to support the troops? Give them a nation that is worthy of protection.”
Two-tour Army veteran who emailed me when I was writing an article for The Atlantic in 2007
Bill Murphy Jr.
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 18, 2024

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That’s basically all I ask.
The only people who deserve to be in your life are the ones who treat you with love, kindness and total respect.
Shannen Doherty,
actor
1971-2024
 
 
 
 
How good are you willing to allow your life to be?
Abraham Hicks – American Inspirational Speaker-Author
 
 
 
 
“Forever is composed of nows.”
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
Laozi
 
 
 
 
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray to be a strong person.”
Nadia Comăneci
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 16, 2024

I was a jukebox in my last life and I’ll keep on playing!
Richard Simmons,
exercise and fitness instructor, TV personality
1948-2024
 
 
 
 
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
 
 
 
 
“Be nice to yourself. It’s hard to be happy when someone is always mean to you all the time.”
Christine Arylo
 
 
 
 
“Be kind to your body, gentle with your mind and patient with your heart. Stay true to your spirit, cherish your soul and never doubt yourself. You are still becoming, my love, and there is no one more deserving of the nurturing grace of your love.”
Becca Lee
 
 
 
 
“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ”
M. Scott Peck
 
 
 
 
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
Lucille Ball
 
 
 
 
“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”
Jean Shinoda Bolen
 
 
 
 
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”
Brené Brown
 
 
 
 
“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
Shannon L. Alder
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 15, 2024

If I had listened to everyone who told me no, I’d never have gotten anything accomplished.
Shelley Duvall,
actor
1949-2024
 
 
 
 
Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now, and I think, like, where will I be standing when I look back. Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or … or what?
Jennifer Egan,
writer, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction recipient
 
 
 
 
You can be miserable before you eat a cookie, and you can be miserable afterwards. But never while you’re eating a cookie.
Ina Garten
 
 
 
 
“The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.”
Kailash Satyarthi
 
 
 
 
I think kinship is the opposite of alienation. I think kinship is the opposite of objectification of people, of the greater-than-human world. If we can see the moon as kin, what can’t we see as kin?
John Hausdoerffer
 
 
 
 
I have learned this for certain: if discontent is your disease, travel is medicine. It resensitizes. It opens you up to see outside the patterns you follow. Because new places require new learning.
Jedidiah Jenkins
 
 
 
 
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
 
 
 
 
So, you are still alive and when you are alive, give love, unconditional love! That’s enough.
Shin Terayama
 
 
 
 
Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you’re bravely working.
Expecting the worst, you look, and instead, here’s the joyful face you’ve been wanting to see.
Rumi (translation Coleman Barks)
 
 
 
 
Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life.
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 14, 2024

Thus it was that ancient people recognized that a magical quality, a spirit, circulates along with gifts.
Charles Eisenstein
 
 
 
 
You are allowed to be happy, well rested, content, and appreciative of your life as it is.
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 
 
 
A library should not shush; it should roar!
Catherynne M. Valente
 
 
 
 
All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and someone who believes in them.
Magic Johnson
 
 
 
 
Real power is usually unspectacular, a simple setting aside of fear that allows the free flow of love. But it changes everything.
Martha Beck
 
 
 
 
I believe that much in the world around us is designed against experience. For example, the experience of actually touching the soil. How many times do we actually take off our shoes and walk on the dirt?
Lee Hoinacki
 
 
 
 
Our lives are themselves random: chance encounters, events and the accumulation of accidents being the defining features of our span upon this earth.
James Bridle
 
 
 
 
The cost of doing anything is life because our time, our energy, our attention, all of those things are finite. Our choice to do anything has a cost, and that cost is our life.
Adii Pienaar