Quotes April 17, 2021

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
Larry McMurtry,
writer, screenwriter, bookseller
1936-2021
 
 
 
 
Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
Beverly Cleary,
writer
1916-2021
 
 
 
 
Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.
Sylvia Earle,
marine biologist, conservationist, oceanographer, explorer
 
 
 
 
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Andersen,
writer
 
 
 
 
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
George Jean Nathan,
drama critic, magazine editor
 
 
 
 
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D.H. Lawrence,
writer, poet
 
 
 
 
When people say, ‘You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,’ it’s not true, because you can reinvent yourself and learn new things whenever you want.
Jonathan Van Ness,
hairdresser, actor, writer, TV personality, podcast host
 
 
 
 
There is a choice to make, a chance to take.
Jill McCorkle,
writer, educator
 
 
 
 
To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
Alvin Ailey,
dancer, director, choreographer, activist
 
 
 
 
The first act of insight is throw away the labels.
Never think you’ve seen the last of anything.
Eudora Welty,
writer, Pulitzer Prize winner
 
 
 
 
Judge not for your flaws, but for your Triumphs!
Whitney Houston,
singer, actor
 
 
 
 
The talent should speak for itself.
Jennifer Hudson,
singer, actor
 
 
 
 
You don’t paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.
Kris Kristofferson,
singer-songwriter, actor