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Quotes September 14, 2024

Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges.
Bryant McGill – Author
 
 
 
 
The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.
Marianne Williamson – Author-Speaker
 
 
 
 
“I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.”
Ann Richards
 
 
 
 
“Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what’s given to you on a plate.”
Amy Winehouse
 
 
 
 
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 13, 2024

I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can’t be won without.
Ernie Pyle
 
 
 
 
An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.
Ernest Hemingway
 
 
 
 
The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.
Sebastian Junger
 
 
 
 
I’m convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.
Bill Mauldin
 
 
 
 
I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War’s harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service.
Jim Webb
 
 
 
 
I’m proud to have served there for 12 months with Alpha Company of the 39th Infantry.
Wes Studi
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 12, 2024

“So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.”
Billy Collins*
*The final line from the poem, The Names, US poet laureate Billy Collins’ ode to the victims of the 9/11 attack.
 
 
 
 
Once I found out I could communicate verbally again, it became a very important thing for me, like making up for lost time, making up for the years that I didn’t speak.
James Earl Jones,
actor
1931-2024
 
 
 
 
“Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up they will change the world.”
Jack Ma
 
 
 
 
“The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads—in the end—to the best within us.”
Jesse Owens
 
 
 
 
And indeed there will be time / To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”
T. S. Eliot,
poet, playwright
 
 
 
 
“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
There are moments in everyone’s life where the stars align.
I know I’m going to do this for the rest of my life. I know this is the path I need to follow, whatever that means for me, and whatever success that means for me is what I’m destined for.
Sabrina Carpenter,
singer, songwriter, actor
 
 
 
 
“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.” – Stephen Hawking
 
 
 
 
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
Queen Elizabeth II

 
 
 
 

Quotes September 11, 2204

The biggest thing holding you back is you. Start there.
Hunter Post – Strategy Coach-Leadership Consultant
 
 
 
 
The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow.
Robert Tew – Writer
 
 
 
 
The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.
Steven Furtick – Pastor
 
 
 
 
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
George A. Moore
 
 
 
 
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
Alexander Graham Bell
 
 
 
 
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
Bruce Feirstein
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 09-10, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha


Reminder:
“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there.”
Deepak Chopra
 
 
 
 
“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 
“Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experiences.”
Brené Brown, Daring Greatly
 
 
 
 
“Not all toxic people are cruel and uncaring. Some of them love us dearly. Many of them have good intentions. Most are toxic to our being simply because their needs and way of existing in the world force us to compromise ourselves and our happiness. They aren’t inherently bad people, but they aren’t the right people for us.”
Daniell Koepke
 
 
 
 
“It feels good to be accepted, loved, and approved of by others, but often the membership fee to belong to that club is far too high of a price to pay.”
Dennis Merritt Jones
 
 
 
 
“If you love yourself, it doesn’t matter if other people don’t like you because you don’t need their approval to feel good about yourself.”
Lori Deschene
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 07-08, 2024

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts – 1915-1973 – Writer
 
 
 
 
“Nonsense and beauty have close connections.”
E.M. Forster
 
 
 
 
In busy hours how grateful is / A little word of cheer
How beautiful a day can be / When kindness touches it!
George Elliston,
journalist, poet
 
 
 
 
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.
David W. Augsburger
 
 
 
 
I’m not weird. I’m limited edition.
Bluebird of Bitterness
 
 
 
 
“Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.”
Jane Addams
 
 
 
 
“Self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.”
Gloria Gaynor
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 06, 2024

Some guys put their faith in Jesus, others put their faith in Buddha, my faith was in my comrades. When it was not enough, I tried prayer.
Robert Stark,
US Army
 
 
 
 
“Without a word this uniform also whispers of freezing troops, injured bodies, and Americans left forever in foreign fields. It documents every serviceman’s courage, who by accepting this uniform, promises the one gift he truly has to give: his life. I wear my uniform for the heritage of sacrifice it represents and more. I wear my uniform with pride, for it represents the greatest nation of free people in the world.”
Captain Karen Dorman Kimmel
 
 
 
 
“The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 05, 2024

Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?
Ludwig van Beethoven (December 16, 1770–March 26, 1827)
 
 
 
 
If you build a better mousetrap, the world might beat a path to your door, or a rival mousetrap maker may beat you to a pulp.
Gavin McInnes
 
 
 
 
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
Walt Disney
 
 
 
 
Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.
Isabelle Lafleche – Writer
 
 
 
 
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
Mother Teresa
 
 
 
 
“Success has brought me world idolization and millions of pounds. But it’s prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.”
Freddie Mercury
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 04, 2024

September tries its best to have us forget summer.
Bernard Williams,
philosopher
 
 
 
 
“While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.”
LEO TOLSTOY, WAR AND PEACE
 
 
 
 
Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking.
Antonio Machado
 
 
 
 
Where in your life does love flourish? Where in your life is light allowed to flood in?
Warmly,
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 
 
 
Become the kind of person whom nobody fears.
Arun Bhatt
 
 
 
 
Don’t give up, the beginning is always the hardest.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 02, 2024

I hinted to my husband that for my birthday I’d like something new and shiny that can go from zero to 200 in five seconds. He bought me a bathroom scale.
Bluebird of Bitterness
 
 
 
 
The end-of-summer winds make people restless.
Sebastian Faulks,
writer, journalist
 
 
 
 
A leader is a person who has people following them, because they want to.
Larry Wilson – 1938-2020 – American Professional Football Player
 
 
 
 
My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
Sebastian Faulks
 
 
 
 
“In order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out. There are going to be times in your life when you’re going to have to stick your neck out. There will be challenges. And instead of hiding in a shell, you have to go out and meet them.”
RUTH WESTHEIMER
 
 
 
 
“This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places.”
EDWARD ABBEY
 
 
 
 
“Your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.”
TONI MORRISON