Quotes October 09, 2021

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I’m going to learn from that process.
You can’t control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.
Lin-Manuel Miranda,
composer, lyricist, singer, actor, playwright, producer
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
Thomas Paine
 
 
 
 
I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.
Joan Rivers – 1933-2014 – Comedian-Actress-Writer-Producer
 
 
 
 
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
John Cage – 1912-1992 – Composer-Music Theorist-Artist-Philosopher
 
 
 
 
Simply walking into a forest is a holiday for your mind and soul, allowing your imagination and creativity to bloom
Diana Beresford-Kroeger
 
 
 
 
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Walt Whitman
 
 
 
 
There is some strange intimacy between grief and aliveness, some sacred exchange between what seems unbearable and what is most exquisitely alive.
Francis Weller
 
 
 
 
The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin