Quotes October 14, 2021

Imagination creates reality.
Richard Wagner – 1813-1883 – Composer-Theatre Director-Polemicist-Conductor
 
 
 
 
If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong – Novelist-Satirist-Poet
 
 
 
 
You can’t erase what you know. You can’t forget who you are.
Sandra Cisneros,
poet, writer, artist
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
When there’s an uncharted course, you have to figure out how to get through it.
It’s more important to be honest than say things to make people feel better. I don’t think you have to be rude, but I think you have to be honest.
Harry Connick Jr.,
singer, pianist, composer, actor, TV personality
 
 
 
 
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
Calvin Coolidge
 
 
 
 
Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
The voice has its own intelligence and when you open it up, a lot of things come with it.
Barbara McAfee
 
 
 
 
Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.
Jeanette Wiinterson
 
 
 
 
All is connected… no one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken
 
 
 
 
When we are being, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on kairos and are freed from the normal restrictions of time.
Madeleine L’Engle
 
 
 
 
We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.
Brene Brown
 
 
 
 
Navigating becomes a way of knowing, familiarity, and fondness. It is how you can fall in love with a mountain or a forest.
M.R. O’Connor
 
 
 
 
The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
Mark Nepo