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Quotes September 23, 2023

“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when we look back everything is different.”
C.S. Lewis
 
 
 
 
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
Mister Fred Rogers
 
 
 
 
“If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.”
carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner.
 
 
 
 
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
Patrick Rothfuss
 
 
 
 
“Give a man a mask, and he will show you his true face.”
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
“When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.”
Walter Payton
 
 
 
 
“Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of churches.”
Anonymous
 
 

Quotes September 17, 2023

Determined imagination, thinking from the end, is the beginning of all miracles.
Neville Goddard – 1905-1972 – Author-Influential Teacher
 
 
 
 
“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”
“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”
Arthur Ashe
 
 
 
 
“The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.”
Lady Bird Johnson
 
 
 
 
“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
Malala Yousafzai
 
 
 
 
“Nothing is worth more than laughter.”
Frida Kahlo
 
 
 
 
“Musicians don’t retire—they stop when there’s no more music in them.”
Louis Armstrong
 
 
 
 
“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time.”
Sandra Day O’Connor
 
 
 
 
“I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.”
Gianni Versace
 
 

Quotes August 05, 2023

Take forgiveness slowly. Don’t blame yourself for being slow. Peace will come.
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Yoko Ono
 
 
 
 
If you wake up and the day feels broken, just lean into the crack.
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Björk
 
 
 
 
Success is a collection of problems solved.
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I. M. Pei
 
 
 
 
Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.
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Jonathan Sacks
 
 
 
 
Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
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Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it.
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Ann Patchett
 
 
 
 
I may not be there yet, but I am closer than I was yesterday.
Misty Copeland – Ballet Dancer
 
 
 
 
What you feed your mind, will lead your life.
Kemi Sogunle – Author-Certified Life Coach and Relationship Expert
 
 
 
 
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
Albert Einstein – 1879-1955 – Theoretical Physicist
 
 
 
 
Happiness is the highest level of success.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes July 09, 2023

Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.
David J. Schwartz – Trainer and Author
 
 
 
 
“Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.”
Albert Camus
 
 
 
 
“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.”
Eugene V. Debs
 
 
 
 
“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.”
Elbert Hubbard
 
 
 
 
“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
Vincent Van Gogh
 
 
 
 
It only takes one profound experience to change somebody’s life.
Devendra Banhart,
singer, songwriter, musician
 
 
 
 
In the final analysis, it’s all improvisation. We’re all tap dancing on a rubber raft.
Alan Wolf Arkin
 
 

Quotes June 11, 2023

My work, whether perceived as good, bad or indifferent, speaks for itself.
In all forms of art expressions, I do not favor lack of subtlety.
Astrud Gilberto,
singer, songwriter
1940-2023
 
 
 
 
Be not too strict — too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
Amelia E. Barr,
writer, teacher
 
 
 
 
But if we could just celebrate all the wonderful complexities of people, the world would be such a better place.
Elliot Page,
actor
 
 
 
 
It’s time to start living the life we’ve imagined.
Henry James – 1843-1916 – Writer-Author-Novelist
 
 
 
 
The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James – 1842-1910 – Psychologist
 
 
 
 
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin – 1706-1790 – Founding Father of the United States
 
 
 
 
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick – Writer
 
 
 
 
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson – Writer-Speaker
 
 

Quotes June 05, 2023

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
Anne Lamott
 
 
 
 
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
 
 
 
 
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker
 
 
 
 
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
At the heart of that ancient primordial relationship that existed, there was love. Not the Hallmark variety of love, not even the human variety of love, but a much vaster, more ancient, and simpler form of love. A covenant of love between the human and the living Earth.
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
 
 
 
 
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.
Paulo Freire
 
 
 
 
“Off by an inch in the beginning, off by ten thousand miles at the end.”
The Venerable Master Hua
 
 
 
 
There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don’t.
Brene Brown
 
 
 
 
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
William James
 
 
 
 
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don’t spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
Denis Waitley
 
 

Quotes June 03, 2023

“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”
Virginia Woolf
 
 
 
 
“The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.”
John Maynard Keynes
 
 
 
 
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
Isaac Newton
 
 
 
 
“Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.”
Cherilyn “Cher” Sarkisian
 
 
 
 
“Common sense is not so common.”
Voltaire
 
 
 
 
“Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can’t be what you can’t see.”
Sally Ride
 
 
 
 
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
Duke Ellington
 
 
 
 
“Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”
John D. Rockefeller
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 

Quotes June 01, 2023

Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley – 1894-1963 – Writer-Philosopher
 
 
 
 
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
“One man can make a difference and every man should try.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
 
 
 
 
“It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them.”
Walt Whitman
 
 
 
 
The roughest roads often lead to the top.
Christina Aguilera – Singer-Songwriter
 
 
 
 
“People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.”
Linda Ellerbee
 
 
 
 
“Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.”
Stephen Hawking
 
 
 
 

“Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.”
Tina Fey
 
 

Quotes May 21, 2023

Everybody’s entitled to a few strikes.
Stanley Deser
 
 
 
 
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
Galileo Galilei
 
 
 
 
“The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Carl Jung
 
 
 
 
“There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.”
Woodrow Wilson
 
 
 
 
“I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.”
W.E.B. DuBois
 
 
 
 
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton – 1862-1937 – Writer
 
 
 
 
When you know your worth, no one can make you feel worthless.
Sushil Aggarwal – Entrepreneur-Philanthropist
 
 
 
 
If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.
Amy Tan,
writer
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Quotes February 16 – 18, 2023

How proud when I see all the young women who are making and reporting the news. If I did anything to help make that happen, that is my legacy. From the bottom of my heart, to all of you with whom I have worked and who have watched and been by my side, I can say: ‘Thank you.’
Barbara Walters,
broadcast journalist, television personality
1929-2022
 
 
 
 
Get me a room at Hotel Eternity / Where Time likes to stop now and then.
Charles Simic,
poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, MacArthur Foundation genius award recipient, poet laureate of the US
1938-2023
 
 
 
 
I’ve never stuck around long enough to know if anyone would miss me. That’s rock ‘n’ roll, though. Here today, gone tomorrow.
Jeff Beck,
guitarist
1944-2023
 
 
 
 
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
Charles M. Schulz,
cartoonist
 
 
 
 
Avoid letting temper block progress — keep cool.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather,
writer, publisher
 
 
 
 
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
Thomas Jefferson
 
 
 
 
“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”
Albert Camus
 
 
 
 
As you think you vibrate. As you vibrate you attract.
Abraham Hicks – American Inspirational Speaker-Author
 
 
 
 
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
The powers-that-be tried to limit me. We worked hard to get beyond the limits.
That period of dreams and civil rights taught all of us in entertainment how to find our stepping stones. It taught us how to pull others up.
Diahann Carroll,
actor, singer, activist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
We all have stand-down moments that require us to stand up, in the center of ourselves, and know who we are.
Oprah Winfrey – Actress-Entrepreneur-Talk Show Host-Media Executive-Philanthropist
 
 
 
 
Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.
Roy T. Bennett – 1939-2014 – Author
 
 
 
 
Your worth is not a negotiation.
Unknown