Category: Quotes

Quotes & Memes

Perception September 4, 2016

Dante would have added another level of hell in Inferno if he’d known about high school when he’d written his poem.
Jodi Thomas
Lone Heart Pass

Life is to be entered upon with courage.
Alexis de Tocqueville

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Thomas Carlyle

Be as you wish to seem.
Socrates

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Perception September 3, 2016

“Success is not based on ability but rather the ethic in which it is approached”.
Gerrit Schafsma

We tend to overvalue the things we can measure and undervalue the things we cannot.
John Hayes

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu

Endure the present, and watch for better things.
Virgil

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

Perception September 2, 2016

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
Friedrich Nietzsche

 
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov

 

 
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

 

 
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Voltaire

 

 
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. Michelangelo

 

 

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Marcus Aurelius

 

 

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as chaos.
Joyce Grenfell,
actress

 

 

“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.“
T. Tolis

 

 

“An eccentricity made a regular thing of ceases to provoke remark.”
Sylvia Townsend Warner, “Winged Creatures” in Kingdoms of Elfin

 

 

Perception September 1, 2016

“On the whole, tho’ I never arrived at the Perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the Endeavor, a better and a happier Man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it.”
Benjamin Franklin,
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

 

 

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
Margaret Fuller,
journalist and activist

 

 

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs tom the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

 

 

A man travels the world for what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Edward Moore

 

“Hold the hand of the child that lives in your soul. For this child, nothing is impossible.”
Paulo Coelho

Perception August 31, 2016

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No one knows what he can do until he tries. Where there is unity there is always victory.
Publilius Syrus

The sum of all sums is eternity.
Lucretius

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

Slow and steady wins the race.
Robert Lloyd

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Clare Boothe Luce,
politician, diplomat and writer

“Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life with many landmarks, a life which is much subdivided when those subdivisions are not of the same kind, and when new and diverse interests, impressions, and labours follow each other in swift and distinct successions, seems the most long…”
William Edward Hartpole Lecky, The Map of Life

Quotes August 30, 2016

Taking a stand does not preclude you from taking a position. One needs to take a position from time to time to get things done or to make a point. But when a stand is taken it inspires everyone. It elevates the quality of the dialog and engenders integrity, alignment, and deep trust. Taking a stand can shape a person’s life and actions and give them access to profound truths that can empower the emergence of new paradigms and a shift in the course of history.
Lynne Twist
The Soul Of Money

White Privilege

An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King Jr.,
civil rights activist

“We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.”
Mary Dunbar

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.
Jimmy Buffett

Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.
Lois McMaster Bujold,
writer

“The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself; he who goes away pleased with himself and his own wit is also greatly pleased with you.”
Jean de La Bruyère, “Of Society and Conversation”, The Characters of Jean de La Bruyère

 

Perception August 29, 2016

‘You’re beautiful and charming and smart, and everyone is more impressed with me when I have you on my arm.’

I spit into the sink. “So, what you’re saying is, I’m your Rolex watch.”
Tess Oliver
Hard Edge

Moira might have just been delighted—she didn’t mind roughing it when she could actually get away. But she knew most of her key personnel, and their idea of roughing it was getting coffee they poured themselves …
Shiloh Walker
The Right Kind of Trouble

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
John Green

Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.
Lois McMaster Bujold,
writer

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
Charles Dickens

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.”
Madame de la Fayette

Perceptions August 27, 2016

The one who falls and gets up is so much stronger than the one one never fell.
Unknown

You Don’t Have To Be Perfect To Be Amazing
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Pereceptions August 26, 2016

“Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They’re compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment.”
Brené Brown

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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington,
US first lady

“Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn’t these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment, after all, every man chooses: will he go forward, will he go back? There was nothing dishonorable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one’s own generation.”
John Le Carre, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Perceptions August 25, 2016

That is the true perfection of man, to find out his imperfections.
St. Augustine,
philosopher and theologian

“As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I’ve found that to be absolutely axiomatic.”
Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

I propose that one attribute of the production of those makers we call artists, historically and culturally, constitutes a kind of prosthetic activity to address an unforgettable and irreconcilable absence.
Richard Berger

Character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
George Eliot (1819-1880)