Quotes February 25, 2023

My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.
Raquel Welch,
actor
1940-2023
 
 
 
 
None of us know what a year may bring forth.
Harriet Jacobs,
writer, abolitionist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
There’s always a pastness operating in the present. And it has effects and consequences.
When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.
Cornel West,
philosopher, educator, social activist, writer
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
The brightest skies are often overshadowed by the darkest clouds.
Harriet Jacobs
writer, abolitionist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
“Just knowing you don’t have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn – and those are all good things.”
Dick Van Dyke
 
 
 
 
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”
Kahlil Gibran
 
 
 
 
Each day provides its own gifts.
Marcus Aurelius – 121-180 – Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
You’re going to go through tough times. That’s life. But I say, “Nothing happens to you. It happens for you.” See the positive in negative events.
Joel Osteen
Pastor-Televangelist-Author
 
 
 
 
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
Appreciation is the purest vibration that exists on the planet today.
Esther Hicks
Inspirational Speaker-Author
 
 
 
 
Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati -1940-2012
Spiritual Teacher-Activist-Author-Artist
 
 
 
 
Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
Jodi Picoult
American Writer
 
 
 
 
The vibration of gratitude attracts more positive things into your life.
Cherie Roe Dirksen
Self-empowerment Author
 
 
 
 
Problems fade away when you start facing them with positivity in your soul.
Unknown