Tag: Assorted

Quotes September 07-08, 2024

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts – 1915-1973 – Writer
 
 
 
 
“Nonsense and beauty have close connections.”
E.M. Forster
 
 
 
 
In busy hours how grateful is / A little word of cheer
How beautiful a day can be / When kindness touches it!
George Elliston,
journalist, poet
 
 
 
 
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.
David W. Augsburger
 
 
 
 
I’m not weird. I’m limited edition.
Bluebird of Bitterness
 
 
 
 
“Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.”
Jane Addams
 
 
 
 
“Self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.”
Gloria Gaynor
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 05, 2024

Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?
Ludwig van Beethoven (December 16, 1770–March 26, 1827)
 
 
 
 
If you build a better mousetrap, the world might beat a path to your door, or a rival mousetrap maker may beat you to a pulp.
Gavin McInnes
 
 
 
 
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
Walt Disney
 
 
 
 
Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.
Isabelle Lafleche – Writer
 
 
 
 
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
Mother Teresa
 
 
 
 
“Success has brought me world idolization and millions of pounds. But it’s prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.”
Freddie Mercury
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 31, 2024

“You don’t try to build a wall, you don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say I’m gonna build the biggest baddest wall that’s ever been built. you say, I’m gonna lay this brick, as perfectly as a brick can be laid, and you do that every single day, and soon you have a wall. It’s difficult to take the first step when you look how big the task is. The task is never huge to me, it’s always one brick”
Will Smith
 
 
 
 
“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement… get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel
 
 
 
 
“To rush in with success formulas when someone is emotionally low or fatigued or under a lot of pressure is comparable to trying
to teach a drowning man to swim.”
Stephen R. Covey, Primary Greatness
 
 
 
 
“The most freeing experience of my life thus far has been to… be unapologetically myself, and to stand in my own light.”
Hannah Rose
 
 
 
 
“A good example has twice the value of good advice.”
Albert Schweitzer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician
 
 
 
 
Opportunities are like sunrises — if we wait too long, we miss them.
Marc Chernoff
 
 
 
 
“Life is not about you. It is about what you do for others.”
Tom Rath
 
 
 
 
We always ask where the time went. We never ask where it’s coming from.
James Lileks
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 26, 2024

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”
Vern Law
 
 
 
 
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu
 
 
 
 
“When life gets tough and you’re faced with defeat, remember somewhere in the world a flower is popping through some concrete.”
BRAD MONTAGUE
 
 
 
 
“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.”
WENDELL BERRY
 
 
 
 
The best way to ensure success is to never lose energy because things aren’t going as fast as you want them to.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 29, 2024

I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine; I insist on color.
Charles Bowden,
journalist, writer
 
 
 
 
“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”
Vincent van Gogh
 
 
 
 
Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.
Simon Sinek – Author-Speaker
 
 
 
 
“No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.”
George Washington Carver
 
 
 
 
It’s wild that when you decide you’re worth more, the Universe starts opening doors to make it a reality.
Cory Allen – Podcaster-Meditation Teacher-Audio Engineer
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 22, 2024

A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
Angela Merkel – Chancellor of Germany
 
 
 
 
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
e.e. cummings
 
 
 
 
“Once you start questioning the bad stuff that comes your way, you have to start questioning the good—and I wouldn’t trade the good for anything.”
Stuart Scott
 
 
 
 
“We all need to learn to become comfortable with ourselves as early as possible, and to grasp that we are responsible for who we are.”
Gisele Bündchen
 
 
 
 
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
Steve Jobs
 
 
 
 
“The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.”
Alex Trebek
 
 

Quotes July 21, 2024

As global citizens, it is incumbent upon us to express global citizenship. We must also recognize the fundamental human responsibility we share, which is to practice making conscious the dark energies of human suffering so that those energies can be digested, integrated, and returned to the life flow of future potential.
Thomas Hubl
 
 
 
 
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
Hippocrates
 
 
 
 
The ability to flexibly move between states is a sign of well-being and resilience.
Deb Dana
 
 
 
 
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.
Henry Winkler
 
 
 
 

Reminder:
Words do have power. Names have power. Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it.
Ursula Le Guin
 
 
 
 

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
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 11, 2024

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake – 1757-1827 – Poet-Painter-Printmaker
 
 
 
 
Did you know this was coming and hide that you knew, or did it ambush you from behind?
Jennifer Egan,
writer, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction recipient
 
 
 
 
“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result … His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.”
Nikola Tesla
 
 
 
 
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
 
 
 
“Change, by its very nature, is threatening but it is also often productive.”
Betty Ford
 
 
 
 
“The environment is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest… It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become.”
Lady Bird Johnson
 
 
 
 
“We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?”
Tom Hanks
 
 

Quotes July 08, 2024

You want to become a master at overcoming hard moments. That to me is the sign of a champion.
Roger Federer,
professional tennis player
 
 
 
 
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 
 
 
 
The most organizing conversation starter is “What do we want to create together?”
Peter Block
 
 
 
 
But I know a greater reality and a greater awareness exists. I know there is a truth that cannot be thought, only received.
Tracy Cochran
 
 
 
 
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
 
 
 
 
It’s not what you do, but who you become by what you do.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
Vince Lombardi