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Quotes September 01, 2024

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.
Steve Jobs – 1955-2011 – Business Magnate-Industrial Designer-Investor
 
 
 
 
“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.”
Horace
 
 
 
 
“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life.”
​LORD BYRON
 
 
 
 
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
Marie Curie
 
 
 
 
“Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.”
Joel Osteen
 
 
 
 
“A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
John Burroughs
 
 
 
 
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”
Sarah Dessen
 
 
 
 
“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
Flavia Weedn
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 31, 2024

“You don’t try to build a wall, you don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say I’m gonna build the biggest baddest wall that’s ever been built. you say, I’m gonna lay this brick, as perfectly as a brick can be laid, and you do that every single day, and soon you have a wall. It’s difficult to take the first step when you look how big the task is. The task is never huge to me, it’s always one brick”
Will Smith
 
 
 
 
“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement… get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel
 
 
 
 
“To rush in with success formulas when someone is emotionally low or fatigued or under a lot of pressure is comparable to trying
to teach a drowning man to swim.”
Stephen R. Covey, Primary Greatness
 
 
 
 
“The most freeing experience of my life thus far has been to… be unapologetically myself, and to stand in my own light.”
Hannah Rose
 
 
 
 
“A good example has twice the value of good advice.”
Albert Schweitzer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician
 
 
 
 
Opportunities are like sunrises — if we wait too long, we miss them.
Marc Chernoff
 
 
 
 
“Life is not about you. It is about what you do for others.”
Tom Rath
 
 
 
 
We always ask where the time went. We never ask where it’s coming from.
James Lileks
 
 
 
 

Quote August 30, 2024

Marines know how to use their bayonets. Army bayonets may as well be paper-weights.”
Navy Times
 
 
 
 
“We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?”
Gen. John W. Vessey Jr
 
 
 
 
“They told (us) to open up the Embassy, or “we’ll blow you away.” And then they looked up and saw the Marines on the roof with these really big guns, and they said in Somali, “Igaralli ahow,” which means “Excuse me, I didn’t mean it, my mistake”.”
Karen Aquilar
 
 
 
 
“Don’t you forget that you’re First Marines! Not all the communists in Hell can overrun you!”
Col. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller

 
 
 
 

Quotes August 29, 2024

Always be a little kinder than necessary.
J.M. Barrie – 1860-1937 – Novelist-Playwright
 
 
 
 
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman
 
 
 
 
My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
Sebastian Faulks,
writer, journalist
 
 
 
 
I feel like I’m just being my 10-year-old self. … My whole persona is just me trying to honor that version of myself that I was never allowed to be.
Chappell Roan,
singer, songwriter
 
 
 
 
“Purpose is an essential element of you … the struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.”
Chadwick Boseman
 
 
 
 
“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”
Ingrid Bergman
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 27, 2024

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton – 1643-1727 – Mathematician-Physicist-Astronomer-Author
 
 
 
 
“Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.”
Jacob Bronowski
 
 
 
 
I have always been at the same time / woman enough to be moved to tears / and man enough / to drive my car in any direction
Hettie Jones,
poet, writer, publisher
1934-2024
 
 
 
 
“Beauty is whatever gives joy.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
 
 
 
 
“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.”
W.E.B. Du Bois
 
 
 
 
“Purpose is an essential element of you … the struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.”
Chadwick Boseman
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 28, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha


 
 
“Recovery is all about using our power to change our beliefs that are based on faulty data.”
Kevin McCormick
 
 
 
 
“When we are aware of our weaknesses or negative tendencies, we open the opportunity to work on them.”
Allan Looks
 
 
 
 
“It’s not the power of one that changes things; it’s the power of ONE ANOTHER that moves mountains and moves people.”
Genevieve Piturro
 
 
 
 
“If there is love in your heart, it will guide you through your life. Love has its own intelligence.”
Sadhguru
 
 
 
 
“To think new thoughts, you have to break the bones in your head.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
 
 
 
 
“Ultra independence is a coping mechanism we develop when we’ve learned it’s not safe to trust love or when we are terrified to lose ourselves in another. We aren’t meant to go it alone. We are wounded in relationship and we heal in relationship.”
Rising Woman
 
 
 
 
Notice how I didn’t say “my” anxiety or “my” depression? How I said, “I felt anxious or depressed,” and not “I am anxious or depressed?”
That’s because you and I are NOT the depression or the anxiety. We are the beings experiencing these conditions.
You just have to move forward with loving awareness. And the rest will fall into place.
Moon Merthur
 
 
 
 
“It’s the small habits. How you spend your mornings. How you talk to yourself. What you read and what you watch. Who you share your energy with. Who has access to you. That will change your life.”
Michael Tonge
 
 
 
 
“Whatever you’re feeling, it will eventually pass. You won’t feel sad forever. At some point, you will feel happy again. You won’t feel anxious forever. In time, you will feel calm again. You don’t have to fight your feelings or feel guilty for having them. You just have to accept them and be good to yourself while you ride this out. Resisting your emotions and shaming yourself will only cause you more pain, and you don’t deserve that. You deserve your own love, acceptance, and compassion.”
Lori Deschene
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 26, 2024

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”
Vern Law
 
 
 
 
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu
 
 
 
 
“When life gets tough and you’re faced with defeat, remember somewhere in the world a flower is popping through some concrete.”
BRAD MONTAGUE
 
 
 
 
“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.”
WENDELL BERRY
 
 
 
 
The best way to ensure success is to never lose energy because things aren’t going as fast as you want them to.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 25, 2024

Grant me courage to serve others, for in service, there is true life.
Cesar Chavez – 1927-1993 – Labor Leader-Civil Rights Activist
 
 
 
 
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
Paulo Coelho, from “The Alchemist”
 
 
 
 
“The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.”
KATHLEEN ROONEY, LILLIAN BOXFISH TAKES A WALK
 
 
 
 
“Without goals, training has no direction.”
Natalie Coughlin
 
 
 
 
“There’s no failure in sports. You know, there’s good days, bad days. Some days you are able to be successful, some days you’re not. Some days it’s your turn, some days it’s not your turn. And that’s what sports [are] about. You don’t always win.”
​GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 24, 2024

It doesn’t do any good to talk if nobody’s listening.
I think if it exists you can discuss it.
Phil Donahue,
talk show host, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
1935-2024
 
 
 
 
I feel like I have to have a voice.
I have a lot of regrets, but I’m not going to think of them as regrets.
Debbie Harry,
singer, songwriter
 
 
 
 
“There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
Dorothy Parker
 
 
 
 
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
Cesare Pavese
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 23, 2024

Better than honor and glory, and History’s iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
Richard Watson Gilder
 
 
 
 
Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.
Charles B. Rangel
 
 
 
 
America’s Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
John Doolittle
 
 
 
 
“We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost.”
James F. Amos
 
 
 
 
Old breed? New breed? There’s not a damn bit of difference so long as it’s the Marine breed.
Chesty Puller
 
 
 
 
“I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It’s one of the best things I’ve had a chance to do.”
Adam Driver