Quotes July 15, 2024

If I had listened to everyone who told me no, I’d never have gotten anything accomplished.
Shelley Duvall,
actor
1949-2024
 
 
 
 
Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now, and I think, like, where will I be standing when I look back. Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or … or what?
Jennifer Egan,
writer, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction recipient
 
 
 
 
You can be miserable before you eat a cookie, and you can be miserable afterwards. But never while you’re eating a cookie.
Ina Garten
 
 
 
 
“The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.”
Kailash Satyarthi
 
 
 
 
I think kinship is the opposite of alienation. I think kinship is the opposite of objectification of people, of the greater-than-human world. If we can see the moon as kin, what can’t we see as kin?
John Hausdoerffer
 
 
 
 
I have learned this for certain: if discontent is your disease, travel is medicine. It resensitizes. It opens you up to see outside the patterns you follow. Because new places require new learning.
Jedidiah Jenkins
 
 
 
 
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
 
 
 
 
So, you are still alive and when you are alive, give love, unconditional love! That’s enough.
Shin Terayama
 
 
 
 
Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you’re bravely working.
Expecting the worst, you look, and instead, here’s the joyful face you’ve been wanting to see.
Rumi (translation Coleman Barks)
 
 
 
 
Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life.
Klas Pontus Arnoldson