Tag: Assorted thoughts

Quotes November 19-20, 2024

Strawberry ponies / Strawberry lambs / Dancing in meadows / Of strawberry jam.
Mountains and fountains / Rain down on me / Buried in berries / What a jam jamboree!
Bruce Degen,
illustrator, writer
1945-2024
Bruce Degen (/ˈdiːɡən/ DEEG-ən;[1] June 14, 1945 – November 7, 2024) was an American illustrator and writer, known for illustrating The Magic School Bus, a picture book series written by Joanna Cole. He collaborated with writers Nancy White Carlstrom, on the Jesse Bear books, and Jane Yolen, on the Commander Toad series. He wrote self-illustrated Jamberry, Daddy Is a Doodlebug, and I Gotta Draw.
 
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Change is your friend not your foe; change is a brilliant opportunity to grow.
Simon T. Bailey – Author-Speaker
 
 
 
 
Each day provides its own gifts.
Marcus Aurelius – 121-180 – Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield,
statesman
 
 
 
 
Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you’ve got.
Anne Tyler,
writer, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction recipient
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 10, 2024

“The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”
Arthur C. Clarke
 
 
 
 
“All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success.”
Eric Adams
 
 
 
 
“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.”
Isaac Asimov
 
 
 
 
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
 
 
 
 
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 03, 2024

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
Stephen Hawking
 
 
 
 
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Daryn Kagan
 
 
 
 
If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.
Shauna Niequist
 
 
 
 
Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
 
 
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri
 
 
 
 
In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people.
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that’s what will be interesting to you.
Gretchen Rubin
 
 
 
 
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam
 
 
 
 
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
W.B. Yeats
 
 
 
 
What passes between two beings in the comfortable silences of a forty-year friendship?
Natalie Middleton
 
 
 
 
So long as the inner work is strong, the outer work will never be puny.
Meister Eckhart
 
 
 
 
My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Steve Jobs
 
 
 
 
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Mitch Albom
 
 
 
 
Learn to be done.
Not mad, not bothered, just done.
Protect your peace at all costs.
@thinkingmindspage
 
 
 
 
We are all ancestors in training.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes November 25, 2023

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill – 1883-1970 – Author
 
 
 
 
Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.
Lisa Nichols – Author-Motivational Speaker
 
 
 
 
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Booker T. Washington
 
 
 
 
“I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.”
Margaret Mead
 
 
 
 
“Life is like a trumpet. If you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out.”
WC Handy
 
 
 
 
“Your struggles develop your strengths.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
 
 
 
 
“It is the mind that makes the body.”
Sojourner Truth
 
 
 
 
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
Bobby Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“Common sense is not so common.”
Voltaire
 
 
 
 
“A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.”
Billie Jean King
 
 

Quotes November 07, 2023

Golf is the greatest thing that ever happened to humanity.
Betsy Rawls,
professional golfer, women’s golf pioneer
1928-2023
 
 
 
 
November at its best — with a sort of delightful menace in the air.
I love old moons. … One can stare all night at an old moon.
Anne Bosworth Greene,
writer
 
 
 
 
Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!
Bram Stoker,
writer
 
 
 
 
I’ve always liked the idea of trying to be as individual as possible.
Sade Adu,
singer, songwriter
 
 
 
 
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Eleanor Roosevelt – 1884-1962 – Former First Lady of the United States
 
 
 
 
Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
writer
 
 
 
 
For everything there’s a bad way of describing, also a good way. You pick the good way, you get along better.
Admittedly, there is always a golden age, the one not ours, the one that once was or will someday be.
Cynthia Ozick,
writer
 
 
 
 
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
Langston Hughes – 1901-1967 – Poet-Social Activist
 
 
 
 
If we all do one random act of kindness daily we just might set the world in the right direction.
Martin Kornfeld – Author
 
 
 
 
I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.
Louise Hay – 1926-2017 – Motivational Speaker-Author
 
 
 
 
You deserve your dream.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes October 16, 2023

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
Charlie Munger
 
 
 
 
“Oh it’s very simple. My secret had been I know what to ignore.”
Nobel Prize Winner Francis Crick on the secret to winning.
 
 
 
 
“The best new ideas always have unanticipated benefits. So it’s stupid to require people who want to do new things to enumerate the benefits beforehand. The best you can do is choose smart people and then trust their intuitions about what’s worth exploring.”
Paul Graham on new ideas
 
 
 
 
“I re-invented electric cars and am sending people to mars…did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?”
The start of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk
 
 
 
 
“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.”
Philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
 
 
 
 
I feel like fairness is what it’s all about — and consideration.
Danny DeVito,
actor, director, producer
 
 
 
 
Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion.
Mindy Kaling – Actress-Screenwriter
 
 
 
 
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
May Sarton
 
 
 
 
‘But what is grief, if not love persevering?”
WandaVision
 
 

Quotes July 30, 2023

Through song and art, I can communicate what I believe is the essence of life — truth and beauty.
Tony Bennett
 
 
 
 
Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.
Miles Davis – 1926-1991 – American Trumpeter
 
 
 
 
I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
A good night’s sleep, or a ten-minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.
Ray Bradbury,
writer, screenwriter
 
 
 
 
“Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
 
 
 
 
I didn’t really think of myself as being a muse.
Jane Birkin,
actor, singer
1946-2023
 
 
 
 

You choose the life you live. If you don’t like it, it’s on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.
Kim Kiyosaki – Author and Speaker
 
 

Quotes April 29, 2023

The pursuit of justice is all I have ever known.
I’m outside, looking at a story, and I have no idea what’s on the next page — none.
Harry Belafonte,
singer, actor, civil rights activist
1927-2023
 
 
 
 
Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything.
Neil Strauss – Author-Journalist-Writer
 
 
 
 
When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.
Dejan Stojanovic – Poet-Writer-Essayist-Philosopher-Businessman
 
 
 
 
There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.
Guy Gavriel Kay – Fantasy Fiction Writer
 
 
 
 
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
John Dryden – 1631-1700 – English Poet-Translator-Playwright
 
 
 
 
Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
W.H. Auden,
poet, playwright, critic
 
 
 
 
To catch the fleeting moment — anything, however small, a smile, a flower, a fruit — is an ambition still unfulfilled.
Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.
Berthe Morisot,
painter
 
 
 
 
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W.H. Auden,
poet, playwright, critic
 
 
 
 

You should never regret anything in life. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it is experience.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes October 25, 2022

Do not settle. Reach for the life you were designed to have. You have to stretch. It’s just beyond the edge of your fingertips.
Sandy Gallagher – President, CEO and Co-Founder, Proctor Gallagher Institute
 
 
 
 
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.
Rainer Maria Rilke,
poet, playwright
 
 
 
 
Let the old dreams die. We have new ones.
John Ajvide Lindqvist,
writer
 
 
 
 
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
Harry S. Truman
 
 
 
 
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
George Eliot
 
 
 
 
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
Pablo Picasso
 
 
 
 
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
Edgar Allan Poe
 
 
 
 
“Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.”
Evo Morales
 
 
 
 
“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.”
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.”
Lucy Stone
 
 
 
 
“You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”
Carrie Fisher
 
 
 
 
“Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.”
Tom Petty
 
 
 
 
“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”
James Herriot