Tag: Assorted

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

Quotes January 24, 2023

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller – 1839-1937 – Business Magnate-Philanthropist
 
 
 
 
Remember a future / from another dream / and hold on.
There is / no reasoning with need.
Claudia Rankine,
poet, writer
 
 
 
 
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Izaak Walton – 1593-1683 – Author-Writer
 
 
 
 
The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself.
Ellen DeGeneres – Comedian-Television Host-Actress-Writer-Producer
 
 
 
 
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust
 
 
 
 
Everybody’s sayin’ music is love.
Really what matters is what you do with whatever time you have.
David Crosby,
singer, songwriter, guitarist
1941-2023

Quotes December 10, 2022

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.
Harold S. Kushner – American Rabbi-Author
 
 
 
 
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
Ralph H. Blum – Author
 
 
 
 
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
Martin Luther
 
 
 
 
“Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.”
Ralph Bunche
 
 
 
 
“Forever is composed of nows.”
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
Nature shows us the way of the cycles and impermanence of all things and awakens the heart.
Michele Kambolis
 
 
 
 
Tenderness personalizes everything to which it relates, making it possible to give it a voice, to give it the space and the time to come into existence, and to be expressed. It is thanks to tenderness that the teapot starts to talk.
Olga Tokarczuk
 
 
 
 
If you don’t understand, ask questions. If you’re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
 
 
 
 
It’s a calming thing, to learn there’s a word for something you’ve felt all your life but didn’t know was shared by anyone else.
John Koenig

Quotes November 29, 2022

Discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don’t want to do, in order to get a result you really want to get.
Andy Andrews – Author
 
 
 
 
I write because I am trying to get closer and closer to the marrow of it, whatever the It might be. I write to try and find order in chaos. And sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I do
Danusha Lameris
 
 
 
 
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”
Aristotle
 
 
 
 
“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.”
George Harrison, from “It’s All Too Much”
 
 
 
 
We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum — that’s the new story.
Satish Kumar
 
 
 
 
What gives me hope is that life unfailingly responds to the advances of love.
Nipun Mehta
 
 
 
 
Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
Chinua Achebe
 
 
 
 
The gifts a place gives to people are abundant.
Trebbe Johnson
 
 
 
 
Thank you for the wind and rain
and sun and pleasant weather,
thank you for this our food
and that we are together.
Mennonite blessing

Quotes October 11, 2022

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always our self we find in the sea.
e.e. cummings
 
 
 
 
Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next.
David Abram
 
 
 
 
As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.
Mary Anne Radmacher
 
 
 
 
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato
 
 
 
 
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Khalil Gibran
 
 
 
 
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
 
 
 
 
When you’re happy, relaxed, and free of stress, the body can accomplish amazing, even miraculous, feats of self-repair.
Lissa Rankin, MD
 
 
 
 
We lie in the lap of an immense intelligence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
What if we all could reach our potential and make our contribution to the world? That would create more abundance, solve humanity’s problems faster, and make the world better for everyone.
Guy Bieber
 
 
 
 
Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.
Susan Cheever,
writer