Category: Quotes

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Quotes July 27, 2025

You’ve got to try and take things to the next level, or you’ll just get stuck in a rut.
Ozzy Osbourne,
singer, songwriter, media personality
1948-2025
 
 
 
 
Obviously, we all look at things through the filter of our own experiences.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner,
actor, artist
1970-2025
 
 
 
 
“Maybe that’s the best part of going away for a vacation — coming home again.”
MADELEINE L’ENGLE
 
 
 
 
“Every morning, the rising sun invites and inspires us to begin again.”
​DEBASISH MRIDHA
 
 
 
 
“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
 
 
 
 
“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time.”
Sandra Day O’Connor
 
 
 
 
“I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you’ve got to go out and do it. Don’t be shy, be adventurous.”
Dame Helen Mirren
 
 
 
 
“Life’s a roller coaster you don’t always get to choose the seat you’re in, but you can choose to throw your hands up and enjoy the ride.”
Anonymous
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 23, 2025

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“If today gets difficult, remember the smell of coffee, the way sunlight bounces off a window, the sound of your favorite person’s laugh, the feeling when a song you love comes on, the color of the sky at dusk, and that we are here to take care of each other.”
Nanea Hoffman
 
 
 
 
“When we show up for our kids in moments when no one showed up for us, we’re not just healing them. We’re healing ourselves.”
Dr. Becky Kenedy
 
 
 
 
“Mindfulness is a pause—the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.”
Tara Brach
 
 
 
 
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
Alan Watts
 
 
 
 
“When the soul wishes to experience something, she throws an image of the experience out before her and enters into her own image.”
Meister Eckhart
 
 
 
 
“Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.”
Rachel Zoe
 
 
 
 
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
William Bruce Cameron
 
 
 
 
“Our lives only improve when we are willing to take chances, and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”
Walter Anderson
 
 
 
 
“In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.”
Deepak Chopra
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 22, 2025

There were exhilarating highs and abysmal lows. But it was fighting to get out of those lows that I feel most proud of.
Connie Francis,
singer, actor
1937-2025
 
 
 
 
“There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.”
Robin Williams
 
 
 
 
“In football, as in life, the hits you don’t see coming are the ones that do the most damage.”
Stuart Scott, from “Everyday I Fight”
 
 
 
 
Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.
Dying is the opposite of leaving. … I am more here than I ever was before.
Andrea Gibson,
poet, activist
1975-2025
 
 
 
 
“The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.”
Alex Trebek
 
 
 
 
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
Vladimir Nabokov,
writer
 
 
 
 
On my way to climb Mt. Everest, I came upon a local villager who said he had a rooster that laid eggs.
“How is that possible?” I asked.
He replied, “Himalayan rooster.”
 
 
 
 
The rise of Comic-Con and fandom is “the story of how the geek at last inherited the earth.”
Common attendee sentiment
 
 
 
 
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 18, 2025

“At this point, Sergeant Bellavia, armed with a M249 SAW gun, entered the room where the insurgents were located and sprayed the room with gunfire … Seeing a Jihadist loading an RPG launcher, Sergeant Bellavia gunned him down. … Sergeant Bellavia then came under fire from the insurgent upstairs and the staff sergeant returned the fire, killing the man. … Sergeant Bellavia pursued, but slipped on the blood-soaked stairs. … Sergeant Bellavia put a choke hold on the wounded insurgent to keep him from giving away their position. … In the wild scuffle that followed, Sergeant Bellavia took out his knife and slit the Jihadist’s throat.”
Silver Star citation for David S. Bellavia, Iraq
 
 
 
 
“I’d learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.”
Sammy Davis, Jr.
 
 
 
 
“Hooah!”
Pretty much the entire U.S. Army.
 
 
 
 
“They’ve got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.”
Gen. Creighton Abrams
 
 
 
 
“9/11 changed the entire direction of my life.”
Fred Wellman, who had served as a helicopter pilot in the Army and rejoined after September 11 to serve as a public affairs officer.
 
 
 
 
“It took me another 18 months to convince my wife to let me join the Army National Guard. We had two small children, so it was a very hard decision
for her.”
Joel Bottem, a veteran who rejoined after 9/11
 
 
 
 
“It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.”
Zell Miller
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 17, 2025

You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you.
Josh Shipp, motivational speaker
 
 
 
 
Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.
Michael J. Fox
 
 
 
 
We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.
Marianne Williamson, author
 
 
 
 
You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.
Timber Hawkeye, author
 
 
 
 
If opening your eyes, or getting out of bed, or holding a spoon, or combing your hair is the daunting Mount Everest you climb today, that is OK.
Carmen Ambrosio, author
 
 
 
 
Maybe life isn’t about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it’s about collecting the scars to prove that we showed up for it.
Hannah Brencher, author
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 16, 2025

Rhetorical questions have great power.
David Gergen,
US presidential adviser, political commentator, editor, writer
1942-2025
 
 
 
 
I’ve always said there’s no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams.
Aung San Suu Kyi,
politician, diplomat, writer, social activist, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
 
 
 
 
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.
Kurt Vonnegut
 
 
 
 
Pull yourself together and use what you have.
Betsy Cañas Garmon
 
 
 
 
Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams.
S. A. Sachs
 
 
 
 
Our lucky star is the one that happens to be in sight when we are having a bit of luck.
Henry Stanley Haskins
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
Never get discouraged at difficulties… When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that’s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 15, 2025

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead,
cultural anthropologist
 
 
 
 
I have behaved poorly. I have behaved bravely. I have behaved bizarrely to some. I deny none of this and have no regrets because I have lost and found parts of myself that I never knew existed.
Val Kilmer,
actor
1959-2025
 
 
 
 
“No matter what you call it, music is as good as it sounds. Music is an oral art. Until you hear it, it is not music, and if it sounds good, it is good.”
Duke Ellington
 
 
 
 
“One cannot grow fine flowers in a thin soil.”
Virginia Woolf
 
 
 
 
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”
Rachel Carson
 
 
 
 
“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
“I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It’s fragile.”
Alan Shepard
 
 
 
 
“Each and every one of you has the power, the will, and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live.”
Harry Belafonte
 
 
 
 
“The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.”
Sigmund Freud
 
 
 
 
“No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.”
Doris Day
 
 
 
 
“Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his [or her] goals.”
Dorothy Height
 
 
 
 
“God forbid that I should live as an Emperor without an Empire. As my city falls, I will fall with it. Whosoever wishes to escape, let him save himself if he can; as for me, I shall remain here.”
Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine emperor
 
 
 
 
“Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.”
Olympia Dukakis
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 14, 2025

“Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.”
Howard Hughes
 
 
 
 
“Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment.”
GARY CHAPMAN
 
 
 
 
“The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, LITTLE WOMEN
 
 
 
 
“As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.”
MARGARET DELAND
 
 
 
 
“You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.”
DAVID VISCOTT
 
 
 
 
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”
WILLA CATHER
 
 
 
 
“The optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.”
CHRISTIAN D. LARSON
 
 
 
 
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”
MARTHA NUSSBAUM
 
 
 
 
“In a world that can often feel unstable and uncertain, our relationships — romantic, platonic, communal — become the anchors that ground us.”
ESTHER PEREL
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 13, 2025

“The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.”
Vanessa Williams
 
 
 
 
“All that we don’t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.”
Philip Roth
 
 
 
 
“The air is the only place free from prejudice.”
Bessie Coleman
 
 
 
 
“Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.”
Margaret Mitchell, from “Gone with the Wind”
 
 
 
 
“You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.”
Joe Louis
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don’t be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.”
Shirley Temple Black
 
 
 
 
“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”
Jackie Robinson
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 12, 2025

Laughter is our consolation prize for consciousness.
Louise Erdrich
 
 
 
 
There is absolutely no innovation without failure.
Only when diverse perspectives are included, respected, and valued can we start to get a full picture of the world.
Brene Brown,
writer, researcher, lecturer, motivational speaker
 
 
 
 
It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams.
Don DeLillo,
writer, playwright, screenwriter
 
 
 
 
All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.
Louise Erdrich,
writer, poet
 
 
 
 
We didn’t have a chance to form the world we were born into. Now we have the opportunity to make a new one.
Jane Roberts,
writer, poet
 
 
 
 
“Give freely of yourself always to your family, your friends, your community, and your country. The world will pay you back many times over.”
Sandra Day O’Connor
 
 
 
 
“Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.”
George Lucas
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
“One man can make a difference and every man should try.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
 
 
 
 
“Anyone who thinks they’re too small to make a difference has never met the honeybee.”
Popular saying, unknown attribution