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Quotes June 02, 2024

I asked the librarian if they have the new book about Schrodinger’s cat and Pavlov’s dog having adventures. They said it rings a bell, but they don’t know if it’s there.

What’s the tallest building in town? The library. It has the most stories.
Not sure I believe that, seems like a tall tale.

Why did the cardiologist recommend that his patients go to the library? He heard they’re good for circulation.

I went to the library and asked the librarian where I could find books about conspiracy theories. She leaned over and whispered, “They’re right behind you.”

How do librarians flirt? They ask for your call number.

Sorry… what did you say? I checked out

A man goes into a library and asks for a book on cliffhangers. The librarian says,

I don’t have a library card, but do you mind if I check you out?

Why did the librarian get fired? He was always checked out.

I went to the library asked for books about turtles.
Librarian: “Hardbacks?”
Me: “Yes, with little heads.”

How do libraries make sure novels stay warm? They give them book jackets.

I asked the librarian for books on comedy. She said, “That’s a funny question.”

What do librarians take to potlucks? Shhh kabobs.

I had a great library joke, but I had to return it.

What do librarians take fishing? Bookworms.

Librarians love a good joke—they always get the reference.

Why is a math book always unhappy? Because it always has a lot of problems.

I asked the librarian if he knew the author of a dinosaur book. He said, “Try Sarah Topps.”

Why can’t librarians finish mystery books? They keep reading between the lines.

The library banned drinks after someone poured milk on the serials.

I wanted to visit the world’s biggest library, but it was overbooked.

A blonde walks into a library and says in a loud voice, “I want a cheeseburger and fries, please.” The librarian leans forward and quietly tells the blonde, “This is a library, miss.” The blonde replies, “Oh sorry,” and whispers, “I want a cheeseburger and fries, please.”

I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can’t put it down.

What do librarians do after they retire? They get ready for a new chapter in their life.

Why did the ghost come back to the library every day? She went through her books too quickly.

I came here to find some good jokes about libraries, but I can’t find any, so I’ll see my shelf out.

Sorry for all of the library jokes. I’ll put them on hold.

Book Cave

Quotes June 01, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“Agreeing to things just to keep the peace is actually a trauma response. When you do this you’re disrespecting your boundaries. No more making yourself uncomfortable for others to feel comfortable. You have control now. You run your life. Take up space and use your voice.”
Dj Love Light
 
 
 
 
“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
Winston S. Churchill
 
 
 
 
“You are not your feelings. You just experience them. Anger, sadness, hate, depression, fear. This is the rain you walk in. But you don’t become the rain. You know the rain will pass. You walk on. And you remember the soft glow of the sun that will come again.”
Matt Haig
 
 
 
 
“Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging.”
Brené Brown
 
 
 
 
“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode, but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.”
Audrey Hepburn
 
 
 
 
“If you don’t give your mind and body a break, you’ll break. Stop pushing yourself through pain and exhaustion and take care of your needs.”
“Beauty doesn’t come from physical perfection. It comes from the light in our eyes, the spark in our hearts, and the radiance we exude when we’re comfortable enough in our skin to focus less on how we look and more on how we love.”
Lori Deschene
 
 
 
 

Quotes May 31, 2024

In their devotion, their valor, and in the loyal fulfillment of their
obligations, the officers and men of the American Expeditionary Forces
have left a heritage of which those who follow may ever be proud.
John J. Pershing
 
 
 
 
They were mortal, but they were unconquerable.
Willa Cather
 
 
 
 
If this world must become embroiled in a tremendous “war to end wars,”I am glad that I, too, may play a part in it.
Alta May Andrews
 
 
 
 
Never before have men crossed the seas to a foreign land
To fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own,
But knew was the cause of humanity and of mankind.
President Woodrow Wilson
 
 
 
 
Nevertheless they are heard in the still houses: who has not heard them?

They have a silence that speaks for them at night and when the clock counts.

They say, We were young. We have died. Remember us.

They say, We have done what we could but until it is finished it is not done.

They say, We have given our lives but until it is finished no one can know what our lives gave.

They say, Our deaths are not ours: they are yours: they will mean what you make them.

They say, Whether our lives and our deaths were for peace and a new hope or for nothing we cannot say: it is you who must say this.

They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.

We were young, they say. We have died. Remember us.

Archibald MacLeish,
The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak
 
 
 
 

Quotes May 30, 2024

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
 
 
 
 
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford – 1863-1947 – American Industrialist
 
 
 
 
“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
Bob Marley
 
 
 
 
“No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.”
Doris Day
 
 
 
 
“Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.”
George Lucas
 
 
 
 
“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
“There’s great value in being able to step back and laugh at yourself, at life, and at attitudes. Laughter helps you put everything into perspective.”
Jim Henson
 
 
 
 

Quotes May 29, 2024

“Some hurts can be packed away and forgotten about, and they’ll fade with time. And some become caged animals that do more damage, become more feral, the longer they’re ignored.”
Kait Nolan
 
 
 
 
“Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.”
Paul Valéry
 
 
 
 
“There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.”
Édouard Manet
 
 
 
 
“The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.”
Phillis Wheatley
 
 
 
 
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
Edwin H. Land
 
 
 
 
Resilience isn’t something we’re born with or without. It’s a skill we can acquire and sharpen at any time, and one of our main ways to do that is by practicing acceptance.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes May 28, 2024

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
Bluebird of Bitterness
 
 
 
 
“Head up, heart open. To better days!”
T.F. Hodge
 
 
 
 
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
John D. Rockefeller
 
 
 
 
“Just because they say it’s impossible doesn’t mean you can’t do it.”
Roger Bannister
 
 
 
 
“Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire.”
Bob Dylan
 
 
 
 
Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you’re doing. If you’re not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
Aretha Franklin – 1942-2018 – Singer-Songwriter-Pianist
 
 
 
 
Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often
Lisa Nichols – Author-Motivational Speaker
 
 
 
 
“As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.”
Laura Nyro
 
 
 
 
“You can be strong and nice. You don’t have to be one or the other.”
BETH O’LEARY, THE FLATSHARE
 
 
 
 

Quotes May 27, 2024

It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protestor to burn the flag.
Father Dennis Edward O’Brian, USMC
 
 
 
 

 
 

Quotes May 26, 2024

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim Rohn – 1930-2009 – American Entrepreneur-Author
 
 
 
 
To love what you do and feel that it matters — how could anything be more fun?
Katharine Graham,
newspaper publisher
 
 
 
 
What you see is what you see.
Frank Stella,
painter, sculptor, printmaker
1936-2024
 
 
 
 
“The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.”
JHUMPA LAHIRI
 
 
 
 
“May I be awake enough to notice when love appears and bold enough to pursue it without knowing where it will end.”
SULEIKA JAOUAD
 
 
 
 
“Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden — in all the places.”
​FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT, THE SECRET GARDEN
 
 
 
 
“Leaning on others is a beautiful act of self-compassion.”
SALLY CLARKE
 
 
 
 
“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”
JOHN O’DONOHUE
 
 
 
 
“The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.”
DEEPAK CHOPRA
 
 
 
 
“Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.”
ROY T. BENNETT
 
 
 
 

Quotes May 25, 2024

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
John Wooden – 1910-2010 – American Basketball Coach
 
 
 
 
I didn’t know anything, so I asked a lot of questions.
Bruce Nordstrom,
businessperson, retail executive
1933-2024
 
 
 
 
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
Alice Munro
 
 
 
 
“Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
Charles Eames
 
 
 
 
Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
Bob Dylan
 
 
 
 
Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
Stephen King
 
 
 
 
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
C.S. Lewis
 
 
 
 
“I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.”
Florence Nightingale
 
 
 
 
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
 
 
 
 
Ships don’t sink because of the water around them; ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don’t let what’s happening around you get inside you and weigh you down.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes May 24, 2024

Don’t stop trying or fighting for what you believe in the first time someone tells you no.
General (Retired) Ann Dunwoody in her book, A Higher Standard: Leadership Strategies from America’s First Female Four-star General
 
 
 
 
Attract the right people. Let them know what they have to do. Give them the tools to do the job. And when they get it done, your job as a leader is to make sure they get the credit for it.
General (Retired) Rick Hillier, former Chief of Defence Staff for the Canadian Forces
 
 
 
 
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave…
Patrick Henry
 
 
 
 
Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
Josephus Daniels
 
 
 
 

“With each sunrise, you embrace a new opportunity to make a difference in the world.”
Unknown