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Quotes October 04, 2024

I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I’ve always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it’s possible to support the warrior and be against the war. Kris Kristofferson
 
 
 
 
God’s the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That’s solely in the hands of God.
That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.
Johnny Cash
 
 
 
 
“God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere.”

“I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call “policing the area.” That’s where you looked around and if there’s anything wrong here, there, anywhere, you took care of your own area. And I think that’s a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area then we won’t have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed.”
Willie Nelson, Wisdom: The Greatest Gift One Generation Can Give To Another
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 29-30, October 01-03, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“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.”
Lori Deschene
 
 
 
 
“Grief is not something that ever goes away. You just learn to accommodate it so you can move forward in your life and over time it gets less intense, at least most of the time.”
David Baxter
 
 
 
 
“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
Nathaniel Branden
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough.”
Julia Cameron
 
 
 
 
“Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.”
Rumi
 
 
 
 
“If nothing changes, nothing changes. If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’re going to keep getting what you’re getting. You want change, make some.”
Courtney C. Stevens
 
 
 
 
“When things change inside of you, things change around you.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“Crying is not a sign of weakness, it’s a courageous expression of emotions that leads to strength.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“You may not be able to control every situation and its outcome, but you can control how you deal with it.”
Unknown

 
 
 
 

Quotes September 28, 2024

Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is most important.
Junko Tabei – 1939-2016 – Mountaineer-Author-Teacher
 
 
 
 
You are not lucky to be here. The world needs your perspective. They are lucky to have you.
Jose Antonio Tijerino,
president and CEO of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation
Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
If you must wish … wish for something sensible.
W. W. Jacobs,
writer
 
 
 
 
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.
Denzel Washington – Actor, Director, and Producer
 
 
 
 
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.
Wayne Dyer – 1940-2015, Author and Speaker
 
 
 
 
Accept the presence of thorns, but let the rose inspire you.
Steve Pavlina – Self-Help Author – Speaker
 
 
 
 
Be so good, they can’t ignore you.
Steve Martin, Actor
 
 
 
 
I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.
Yayoi Kusama – Contemporary Artist-Works in Film and Fashion Art
 
 
 
 
To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
Amelia E. Barr,
writer, educator
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 27, 2024

“My only answer as to why the Marines get the toughest jobs is because the average Leatherneck is a much better fighter. He has far more guts, courage, and better officers… These boys out here have a pride in the Marine Corps and will fight to the end no matter what the cost.”
2nd Lt. Richard C. Kennard
 
 
 
 
“Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.”
LtGen Victor H. Krulak
 
 
 
 
“I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.”
Sir Winston Churchhill
 
 
 
 
“The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle.”
Gen. John “Black Jack” Pershing
 
 
 
 
“Marines are very good at fighting… And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he’ll have what he wants.”
Peter Pace
 
 
 
 
“Planning plus preparation breeds confidence.”
US Marines
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 25, 2024

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”
Samuel Butler
 
 
 
 
“My favourite season is autumn, and I love walking through woods.”
Lucy Davis
 
 
 
 
“Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.”
Terri Guillemets
 
 
 
 
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
L.M. Montgomery
 
 
 
 
“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
William Cullen Bryant
 
 
 
 
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonize.”

“If I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.”
George Eliot
 
 
 
 
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
Albert Camus
 
 
 
 
“There are two times of the year: autumn and waiting for autumn.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 24, 2024

“I am most radiant and full of energy when the leaves are falling and there is a ghost of change in the air.”
Anna Madsen
 
 
 
 
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
Dolly Parton
 
 
 
 
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
B. C. Forbes
 
 
 
 
“It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!”
Winnie the Pooh
 
 
 
 
“If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to freeze your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE.”
Kyle Lake
 
 
 
 
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”
Vivian Greene
 
 
 
 
“When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in autumn.”
Mehmet Murat Ildan
 
 
 
 
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
Mary Anne Radmacher
 
 
 
 
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 23, 2024

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
Emily Brontë
 
 
 
 
“There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees – as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.”
Ruth Ahmed
 
 
 
 
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
Jim Bishop
 
 
 
 
“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”
Joe L. Wheeler
 
 
 
 
“It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”
Diana Gabaldon
 
 
 
 
“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”
Shira Tamir
 
 
 
 
“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.”
Victoria Erickson
 
 
 
 
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
“Autumn is the season to find contentment at home by paying attention to what we already have, to deepen our relationship with our favorite people and activities and to simply slow down.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 21-22, 2024

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
Albert Schweitzer
 
 
 
 
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.”
Amelia Earhart
 
 
 
 
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
Instrumental music can spread the international language.
Herb Alpert,
trumpeter, songwriter, co-founder of A&M Records
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you’ve been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.”
HG Wells
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
“Reputation is what others think about you. What’s far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.”
Billie Jean King
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 20, 2024

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
 
 
 
“…It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.”
George S. Patton Jr.
 
 
 
 
“The Japanese fought to win – it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our commanders knew that if we were to win and survive, we must be trained realistically for it whether we liked it or not. In the post-war years, the U.S. Marine Corps came in for a great deal of undeserved criticism in my opinion, from well-meaning persons who did not comprehend the magnitude of stress and horror that combat can be. The technology that developed the rifle barrel, the machine gun and high explosive shells has turned war into prolonged, subhuman slaughter. Men must be trained realistically if they are to survive it without breaking, mentally and physically.”
E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
 
 
 
 
“US General Mathew Ridgeway was speaking about “Operation Vulture”. He said, “When the day comes for me to meet my maker and account for my actions, the thing that I would be most proud of is the fact that I fought against and perhaps totally prevented the carrying out of one of the most hare-brained tactical schemes that would have cost the lives of thousands upon thousands of men!”

“On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy in Saigon.”
Michael G. Kramer
(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 19, 2024

Just remember, kids: when life gives you turned backs, start shaking hands!
Caterina Valente,
multilingual singer, guitarist, dancer, actor, entertainer
1931-2024
 
 
 
 
I don’t look back. I go forward.
Herb Alpert,
trumpeter, songwriter, co-founder of A&M Records
 
 
 
 
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein – 1879-1955 – Theoretical Physicist
 
 
 
 
“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.”
C. S. Lewis
 
 
 
 
“You should be unique, you should be confident, and that’s how people remember who you are. You have to be willing to share who you are and your story.”
Vanessa Williams
 
 
 
 
“One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
 
 
 
 
“Being young isn’t about age; it’s about being a free spirit.”
Lesley “Twiggy” Lawson