Category: Quotes

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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
 
 
 
 

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