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Quotes August 14, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.”
Caroline Myss
 
 
 
 
“Celebrate what you want to see more of.”
Tom Peters
 
 
 
 
“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything—anger, anxiety, or possessions—we cannot be free.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
“Just being there for someone can sometimes bring hope when all seems hopeless.”
Dave G. Llewellyn
 
 
 
 
“Walk away from people who put you down. Walk away from fights that will never be resolved. Walk away from trying to please people who will never see your worth. The more you walk away from things that poison your soul, the healthier you will be.”
Shaista Saba
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 13, 2024

“There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.”
NELSON MANDELA
 
 
 
 
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it is a comfort to go hand in hand.”
EMILY KIMBROUGH
 
 
 
 
“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.”
MOHSIN HAMID
 
 
 
 
“Very little is needed to make a happy life.”
MARCUS AURELIUS
 
 
 
 
“You were born with everything you need to answer the call of your soul.”
MARIE FORLEO
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 12, 2024

My favorite definition of ageism is that it’s prejudice against our future selves.
Ina Jaffe,
journalist, broadcast news correspondent
1948-2024
 
 
 
 
Say yes. Say yes, and … create your own destiny.
Maya Rudolph,
actor, comedian
 
 
 
 
If you pick the right small behavior and sequence it right, then you won’t have to motivate yourself to have it grow. It will just happen naturally, like a good seed planted in a good spot.
B.J. Fogg – American Social Scientist
 
 
 
 
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
Epictetus
 
 
 
 
“Make sure you know what makes you happy, and don’t forget it.”
DEREK SIVERS
 
 
 
 
“The transitory nature of the seasons — the changing trees, the behavior of birds and animals, the turning of the globe, the cycle of life in one year — can also be a reminder that time passes and things heal.”
LUCY JONES
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 11, 2024

I’ve never known anybody who doesn’t have insecurities. You harness them and make them work for you.
Barbara Howar,
writer, television interviewer
1934-2024
 
 
 
 
“I like living. … Just to be alive is a grand thing.”
AGATHA CHRISTIE
 
 
 
 
“There is no way around hard work. Embrace it.”
Roger Federer
 
 
 
 
“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part.”
​PIERRE DE COUBERTIN
 
 
 
 
“Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.”
Neil Armstrong on his famous moonwalk
 
 
 
 
“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
Jerry Garcia
 
 
 
 
“There is no easy or quick or infallible approach to a secure peace. It is only by patient, persistent, undismayed effort, by trial and error, that peace can be won.”
Ralph Bunche
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 10, 2024

I’m not about problems; I’m about solutions.
Creating a Family of Choice offers the hope of not just surviving the Beast, but *transcending* its assaults — the chance to become not just personally safe, but a hunter yourself.
Andrew Vachss
 
 
 
 
Curiosity … is the gateway to everything you know you want.
Sarah Jessica Parker,
actor, producer, businessperson
 
 
 
 
You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
John C. Maxwell – American Author
 
 
 
 
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
Earl Nightingale
 
 
 
 
“He who laughs lasts longest.”
W. E. NESOM
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 09, 2024

Armies can not only defend their countries – they can build them.
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
I’m glad I’m in the Army, not only for the people who are in it and for the breadth of experience which it offers, but because of the feeling I have of belonging to an outfit which really matters, one which has a mission of tremendous significance.
General Maxwell D. Taylor
 
 
 
 
Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry!
Colonel Valentine Blacker
 
 
 
 
Get there first with the most men.
General Nathan Bedford Forrest
 
 
 
 
Go sir, gallop, and don’t forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything you like, except time.
Napoleon Bonaparte
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 08, 2024

Learn to be thankful for what you already have, while you pursue all that you want.
Jim Rohn – 1930-2009 – American Entrepreneur-Author
 
 
 
 
“I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.”
Jean-François Copé
 
 
 
 
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
 
 
 
“To go out there and prove what I can do has taught me a lot about who I am. We can push ourselves further. We always have more to give.”
SIMONE BILES
 
 
 
 
“Find what it is you love to do in life and do it! And by the way, only you know what that thing is.”
MAZ JOBRANI
 
 
 
 
“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn’t everyone’s life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?”
Michel Foucault
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 06-07, 2024

I don’t even see when I’m doing my gymnastics. It’s all in the hands. I can feel everything.
I worked my whole life up to those 45 seconds.
Stephen Nedoroscik,
gymnast, Olympic medalist
 
 
 
 
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – 1756-1791 – Prolific, Influential Compost of the Classical Period
 
 
 
 
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
Edward Everett Hale – 1822-1909-Author-Historian
 
 
 
 
When you let go of what you think you need, you clear space for the Universe to bring you what you really want.
Gabby Bernstein – Author-Motivational Speaker-Spiritual Leader-Podcast Host
 
 
 
 
Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.
Markus Zusak,
writer
 
 
 
 
Know that listening is your secret weapon.
Sarah Jessica Parker,
actor, producer, businessperson
 
 
 
 
Give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 05, 2024

Quotes courtesy of Lori Deschene/Tiny Buddha

“Rest is not necessarily a cessation of all activity but a means of going inward, going deeper. Rest is what allows us to go beneath the surface, if we make the time for it. Rest gives us the gift of perspective, and rest invites us into new ways of being and showing up in the world.”
Ashely Neese
 
 
 
 
“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.”
Ann Wigmore
 
 
 
 
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
“Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.”
Prentis Hemphill
 
 
 
 
“For a long time, it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last, it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”
Alfred D. Souza
 
 
 
 
“If you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won’t like you. It may not be easy, but it’s essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs.”
Cheryl Richardson
 
 
 
 
“You are not too old and it is not too late.”

“A lot of what weighs you down isn’t yours to carry.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 04, 2024

When you understand giving, when you understand receiving, you understand that it is all self-organizing. You just have to dance, and in some moments you’re asked to give and in some moments you are asked to receive, but your ultimate prerogative is to just dance.
Nipun Mehta
 
 
 
 
The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further.
Joanna Macy
 
 
 
 
There is a kind of insubstantiality to clouds, and a softness, a yielding…. In a way, everything is a cloud.
Rick Hanson
 
 
 
 
Spiritual literacy is recognizing the sacred in everything around us. Everything around you and everything you do has spiritual significance. The point is that it’s all around us. You just have to have the eyes to see.
Mary Ann Brussat
 
 
 
 
A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.
Zen Shin
 
 
 
 
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce