Quotes February 28, 2021

You don’t get in life what you want. You get what you are.
Jackie Lapin
 
 
 
 
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.
Ernest Hemingway,
writer, journalist, Nobel Prize winner
 
 
 
 
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril. Without free animal life, I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
Alice Walker
 
 
 
 
The witchery of living
is my whole conversation
with you, my darlings.
All I can tell you is what I know.
Mary Oliver
 
 
 
 
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
Jose Saramago
 
 
 
 
For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
Bruce Lee
 
 
 
 
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Rumi
 
 
 
 
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Rainer Maria Rilke
 
 
 
 
The subtle source is clear and bright, the tributary streams run through the darkness.
Shitou Xiqian
 
 
 
 
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michaelangelo
 
 
 
 
To share such a moment of deep tranquility with another being, especially one as different from us as the octopus, is a humbling privilege.
Sy Montgomery
 
 
 
 
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
Muhammad Ali,
professional heavyweight boxer, social activist, entertainer, philanthropist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
Simply by changing your own behavior, you gain at least some influence over the problem.
Douglas Stone