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Quotes February 02-03, 2025

Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is eventually that which must also make you lonely.
Lorraine Hansberry,
playwright, writer
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John Maxwell – Author-Speaker-Pastor
 
 
 
 
“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”
Vince Lombardi
 
 
 
 
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
T.S. Eliot
 
 
 
 
“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”
Gertrude Stein
 
 
 
 
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive anything except the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.
William Hazlitt
 
 
 
 
The only thing you have any control over is the present moment.
Tobe Hanson
 
 
 
 
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 30, 2025

“If architecture was as sloppy as computer science, the first woodpecker to drill on a skyscraper would bring the building down.” That would have been in 1993.
Guy Kawasaki, Computer Curmudgeon
 
 
 
 
The whole universe is vibration. So when we make vibrations, we are communicating with the whole universe.
Madhu Anziani
 
 
 
 
If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?
I haven’t the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
David Sedaris,
writer, humorist
 
 
 
 
“Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on … you’re wasting your life.”
Jackie Robinson
 
 
 
 
It is better to strive in one’s own genuine truth than to succeed in the truth of another. Nothing is ever lost in following one’s own genuine truth.
Bhagavad Gita
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 22, 2025

Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper.
David Lynch,
filmmaker, artist
1946-2025
 
 
 
 
It’s a good thing I had no direction. I might have given up.
Jules Feiffer,
cartoonist, writer, illustrator, screenwriter, Pulitzer Prize recipient
1929-2025
 
 
 
 
The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.
Carl Jung
 
 
 
 
“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.”
Margaret J. Wheatley
 
 
 
 
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection.
From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
Peter Drucker
 
 
 
 
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Thomas Edison
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 14-15, 2025

We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer – 1876-1967 – Former Chancellor of Germany
 
 
 
 
“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.”
Thomas Berger
 
 
 
 
Because you suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive. The potential.
Katharine Hepburn,
actor
 
 
 
 
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
Eileen Caddy – 1917-2006 – Author
 
 
 
 
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Desiderius Erasmus – 1466-1536 – Theologian
 
 
 
 
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
Galileo Galilei
 
 
 
 
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
John Muir
 
 
 
 
It’s our imperfections that make us vulnerable, make us interesting.
The important thing is not to be defined by what others think of you.
Steve Coogan,
actor, comedian, producer, screenwriter
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 04, 2025

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
Jimmy Carter,
politician, 39th president of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
1924-2024
 
 
 
 
You’re never too important to be nice to people.
Jon Batiste – Singer-Songwriter
 
 
 
 
You will always have the time for the things you choose to put first in your life.
Brad Turnbull – Author
 
 
 
 
Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part.
Melody Beattie,
writer
 
 
 
 
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
 
 
 
 
“A good beginning makes a good end.”
Louis L’Amour
 
 
 
 
Reminders:
Don’t be a victim of negative self-talk. Remember, you are listening.
Bob Proctor – 1934-2022 – Author-Speaker-Legend
 
 
 
 
Just how charitable are you supposed to be when criticizing the views of an opponent?
Daniel Dennett
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 14, 2024

“A few honest men are better than numbers.”
Oliver Cromwell
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.”
Coolio
 
 
 
 
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.”
Lucy Larcom
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 08, 2024

“If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.”
Alan Rickman
 
 
 
 
“Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis of all morality.
Dune
 
 
 
 
People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration.
Bertrand Russell
 
 
 
 
Don’t dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.
Elizabeth Elliot – 1926-2015 – Author
 
 
 
 
Dare to be. Dare to adventure.
Cynthia Erivo
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
Stop shrinking yourself to fit places you’ve outgrown.
Failure is not the opposite of success, it is part of success.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 04-05, 2024

Character is what drives everything forward.
Barbara Taylor Bradford, writer 1933-2024
 
 
 
 
Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.
It’s okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.
Percival Everett,
writer
 
 
 
 
The future is always beginning now.
Mark Strand – Poet
 
 
 
 
Small steps motivate. Big steps overwhelm.
Maxime Lagace – Professional Hockey Player
 
 
 
 
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
 
 
 
 
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
Epicurus
 
 
 
 

Quotes November 05, 2024

Today is the day! May we exercise our voice, our power, and our privilege, not merely for our own interests, but for our community and our beloved planet. xx
Warmly,
AmyAnn Cadwell
& The Good Trade Team
 
 
 
 
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
 
 
 
 
Listening well is the most eloquent sign of caring.
Deborah Tannen
 
 
 
 
We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.
David Hawkins
 
 
 
 
Maybe there is no such thing as time; there are only moments, each with its own story.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
 
 
 
 
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world’s.
Rainer Maria Rilke
 
 
 
 
Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.
Shannon L. Alder
 
 
 
 
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean-Baptiste Massieu
 
 
 
 
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass has the power to move you, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
Eleonora Duse
 
 
 
 
Be impeccable with your word.
Don Miguel Ruiz
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 24, 2024

I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.
Brené Brown
 
 
 
 
Slowing down is accompanied by space for noticing.
Krista Tippett
 
 
 
 
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton
 
 
 
 
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
 
 
 
 
There is something quite magical in watching a family of elephants, gorillas or giant forest hogs emerge from the forest edge and bask in sunlight and social opportunities before slipping back into the cool shade of the forest interior.
Vicki Fishlock
 
 
 
 
Are languages then just a collection of words, syntax, and semantics? I’d like to sometimes see them as seeds and sometimes as fields – alive as the minds, tongues, throats, bodies, and air they pass through; germinating, growing roots, bearing fruit, evolving like beings.
M. Yuvan
 
 
 
 
There’s a song that wants to sing itself through us. We’ve just got to be available.
Joanna Macy