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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
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 06, 2025

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“Happiness turned to me and said, ‘It is time. It is time to forgive yourself for all of the things you did not become… Above all else, it is time to believe, with reckless abandon, that you are worthy of me, for I have been waiting for years.”
Bianca Sparacino
 
 
 
 
“Ghosting is cruel because it denies a person the chance to process, to ask questions, or to get closure. It’s emotional abandonment, masquerading as protection.”
Dr. Jennice Vilhauer
 
 
 
 
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
Kahlil Gibran
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
“It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol.”
Brené Brown
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 02, 2025

I don’t believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.
Chuck Mangione,
musician, composer
1940-2025
 
 
 
 
Wealth is enough money to do what I want to with my time.
Andy Stumpf
 
 
 
 
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
There is a crack in everything. / That’s how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen,
singer, songwriter, poet
 
 
 
 
“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love—whether we call it friendship or family or romance—is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.”
James Baldwin
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”
Vincent van Gogh
 
 
 
 
Nobody’s perfect. We’re all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
Jeannette Walls,
writer, journalist
 
 
 
 
“The environment is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest … It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become.”
Lady Bird Johnson
 
 
 
 
“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”
Walter Cronkite
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 01, 2025

“For love of country they accepted death.”
James A. Garfield
 
 
 
 
“We must never forget why we have and why we need our military.”
Lt. Colonel Allen West
 
 
 
 
“Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.”
John A. Logan
 
 
 
 
Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the armed forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.”
“Our servicemen and women are serving throughout the world as guardians of peace–many of them away from their homes, their friends, and their families. They are visible evidence of our determination to meet any threat to the peace with measured strength and high resolve. They are also evidence of a harsh but inescapable truth–that the survival of freedom requires great cost and commitment, and great personal sacrifice.”
President John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“Today, let us, as Americans, honor the American fighting man. For it is he–the soldier, the sailor, the Airman, the Marine–who has fought to preserve freedom. It is his valor that has given renewed hope to the free world that by working together in discipline and faith our ideals of freedom will always prevail.”
Admiral Forrest P. Sherman
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 31, 2025

You must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.
Elizabeth Gilbert
 
 
 
 
Those parts of yourself that you desperately want to hide and destroy will gain power over you. The best thing to do is face and own them, because they are forever a part of you.
Janet Mock
 
 
 
 
I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
It’s like a mother: When the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get relief.
Thích Nhất Hạnh
 
 
 
 
Don’t sabotage yourself. There are enough people out there who’ll do it for you.
Adam Gnade
 
 
 
 
You don’t have to be good at everything in your life but it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy new experiences even if you are not good at them.
Steven Aitchison
 
 
 
 
You can’t build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.
Ram Dass
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
Talk to yourself as you would someone you love.
Brené Brown
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 28, 2025

Most mentally healthy people have firmer boundaries. They don’t need to fix other people. They don’t need to make sure other people behave. They don’t need other people nearly as much in general. They deal with their own lives and let other people deal with theirs.”
Christopher Farnsworth
Robert B. Parker’s Buried Secrets
 
 
 
 
“Three secrets to success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people.”
Sally Ride
 
 
 
 
“Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.”
Amelia Earhart
 
 
 
 
“If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
 
 
 
 
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
 
 
 
 

Reminders:
Don’t just engage in random acts of kindness. Engage in planned acts of kindness.
Julie Andrews,
actress, singer, writer
 
 
 
 
“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
Benjamin Franklin, on the Declaration of Independence’s implications