Quotes May 25, 2024

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
John Wooden – 1910-2010 – American Basketball Coach
 
 
 
 
I didn’t know anything, so I asked a lot of questions.
Bruce Nordstrom,
businessperson, retail executive
1933-2024
 
 
 
 
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
Alice Munro
 
 
 
 
“Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
Charles Eames
 
 
 
 
Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
Bob Dylan
 
 
 
 
Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
Stephen King
 
 
 
 
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
C.S. Lewis
 
 
 
 
“I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.”
Florence Nightingale
 
 
 
 
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
 
 
 
 
Ships don’t sink because of the water around them; ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don’t let what’s happening around you get inside you and weigh you down.
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