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Quotes October 23, 2024

Addiction could take down the strongest. It showed no preference. It was merciless.
Jack Hunt
In Cold Blood
 
 
 
 
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”
Haile Selassie
 
 
 
 
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
Eleanor Roosevelt,
political figure, diplomat, activist, first lady of the United States
 
 
 
 
“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”
Norman Cousins
 
 
 
 
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
Reminders:
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
When you start taking care of yourself you start feeling better, you start looking better, and you start to attract better. It all starts with you.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 19-22, 2024

I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.
Louise Hay – 1926-2017 – Motivational Speaker-Author
 
 
 
 
In this life, everything has a beginning and end, and I think it’s the appropriate time to put an end to a career that has been long and much more successful than I could have ever imagined.
Rafael Nadal,
professional tennis player
Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.
I was not looking for anything, I was just ready to be surprised.
Isabelle Huppert,
actor
 
 
 
 
Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.
I try to be available for life to happen to me.
Bill Murray,
actor
 
 
 
 
You’re on the right track. Don’t let anyone stop you and do it as long as you want to. You have this gift — just keep going.
Kelly Bishop
 
 
 
 
Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.
Wendy Flynn – Consultant
 
 
 
 
We’re strongest when we cheer each other on.
Serena Williams – Professional Tennis Player
 
 
 
 
Don’t be afraid to give up the good and go for the great.
Steve Prefontaine – 1951-1975 – American Long-Distance Runner
 
 
 
 
Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
Angela Lee Duckworth – Psychologist-American Academic-Science Author
 
 
 
 
Always believe something wonderful is about to happen.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 18, 2024

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they’re protecting us.
Tom Clancy
 
 
 
 
As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.
James McCloughan
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
I’m a medevac pilot. I have spent time suppressing wildfires and things like that. And as a combat pilot, I tend to find the biggest bucket of water I can find and put it on the biggest fire I can find, right?
MJ Hegar
 
 
 
 
Being in combat is not unending high-five moments.
David Petraeus
 
 
 
 
Not long after I was married, World War II began. My husband John volunteered for the Navy and was sent to Pensacola for training as a Naval Combat Air Crew photographer. It seemed a strange assignment for a young newspaper editor and writer, already exempt, but off he went, saying goodbye to our 18-month-old Johnny and me.
Frances Hesselbein
 
 
 
 
There is no battle space the U.S. Military cannot access. They said we couldn’t do Afghanistan. We did it with ease. They said we couldn’t do Iraq. We did it with 150 combat casualties in six weeks. We did it so fast we weren’t prepared for their collapse. There is nobody we can’t take down. The question is, what do you do with the power?
Thomas P.M. Barnett
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 16-17, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha


 
 
“Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equanimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness.”
S.N. Goenka
 
 
 
 
“Feeling safe in someone’s energy is a different kind of intimacy. That feeling of peace and protection is really underrated.”
Vanessa Klas
 
 
 
 
“I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.”
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
“Perfectionism is the exhausting state of pretending to know it all and have it all together, all the time. I’d rather be a happy mess than an anxious stress case who’s always trying to hide my flaws and mistakes.”
Lori Deschene
 
 
 
 
“Don’t be afraid to start over. This time you’re not starting from scratch, you’re starting from experience.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 14-15, 2024

I came at language standing on my head, turning words inside out in search of meaning, making a mess of it sometimes, but seeing truth from a very different viewpoint.
James Earl Jones,
actor
1931-2024
 
 
 
 
I don’t like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don’t know.
Nelson DeMille,
writer
1943-2024
 
 
 
 
I’ve been relentless and I’ve been lucky, but that’s never been enough.
Carmen Gimenez,
poet, editor, publisher, educator
Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
I leave with the absolute peace of mind of having given my best, of having made an effort in every way.
Rafael Nadal,
professional tennis player
Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
Don’t plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.
Julia Alvarez
 
 
 
 
The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.
Dean Ornish
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 12-13, 2024

Anxiety is an emotion; it’s not a disease. It’s an essential part of your intelligence, and it brings you unique skills that are irreplaceable.
Karla McLaren
 
 
 
 
Every place, every landscape, is a site of memory and a site of erasure over different scales of time and space. Sand and stone are pieces of Earth’s memory; yet, you could also say that each of us is a terrain inscribed by memory and by loss.
Lauret Savoy
 
 
 
 
Everyday I wake up and think who am I going to hold up in song?
Melanie DeMore
 
 
 
 
Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
Maria von Trapp
 
 
 
 
The truth is, productivity is a by-product of a functional system, not a goal in and of itself. The question is not whether you are productive but what you are producing.
Celeste Headlee
 
 
 
 
Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss.
Elizabeth Alexander
 
 
 
 
Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides.
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 11, 2024

During the aftermath of Katrina, National Guard troops were positioned on every block to establish a sense of safety and source of help for the people in need. They did not leave communities until people were safe and sound.
Russel Honore
 
 
 
 
While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed.
Timothy Murphy
 
 
 
 
When you combine the men and women deployed from our military installations with activated reservists and members of the National Guard, Georgia is contributing more personnel to the theatre than any other State in our Union.
Sonny Perdue
 
 
 
 
I don’t know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
Ozzie Smith
 
 
 
 
For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was a military presence on the streets. It was intense. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking.
Mark Boal
 
 
 
 
In an increasingly volatile and uncertain world, the men and women of the Iowa National Guard play a vital role in overseas contingency operations, domestic response missions and aggressive training exercises to remain a ready and reliable force.
Kim Reynolds
 
 
 
 
Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.
Kit Bond
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 10, 2024

“The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”
Arthur C. Clarke
 
 
 
 
“All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success.”
Eric Adams
 
 
 
 
“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.”
Isaac Asimov
 
 
 
 
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
 
 
 
 
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 08-09, 2024

I know it’s only on the stage that I feel really alive. For a certain length of time I have to become a person whom I totally believe in.
Maggie Smith,
actor
1934-2024
 
 
 
 
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause, that’s all that matters in the end.
Kris Kristofferson,
singer, songwriter, actor
1936-2024
 
 
 
 
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up.
Isabel Allende,
writer
Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
You learn to tell stories by telling stories.
Every director has at least 10 bad films in them.
Robert Rodriguez,
filmmaker
Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
Frida Kahlo,
artist
Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
Don’t plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.
Julia Alvarez,
writer, poet
Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
Everything starts from a dot.
Wassily Kandinsky,
painter, art theorist
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 05-07, 2024

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
Robert Bresson – 1901-1999 – French Film Director
 
 
 
 
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.
Andy Rooney – 1919-2011 – Radio, Television Writer
 
 
 
 
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Diane Sawyer – American Broadcast Journalist
 
 
 
 
Life isn’t perfect, any failures you have are actually learning moments. They teach us how to grow and evolve.
Phillipa Soo – Actress-Singer
 
 
 
 
Attitude is the little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill – 1874-1965 – Former British Prime Minister
 
 
 
 
The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.
Unknown