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Quotes February 26, 2022

“It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world.”
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
 
 
 
 
“Glam (style) really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.”
David Bowie
 
 
 
 
“In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.”
Erik Erikson
 
 
 
 
“We are all instinctively struggling to reach our potential—and some of us completely remake ourselves numerous times in order to do so.”
Toby Neal
 
 
 
 
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Napoleon Hill – 1883-1970 -Author
 
 
 
 
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald – 1929-1995 – Singer
 
 
 
 
What gives you so much joy, that you will do it just for the sake of doing it?
Your desires are the seed of all your achievements. They are there to remind you what you are capable of.
Georgie Howson
 
 
 
 
Dig in: You’ll never reach bottom.
Rita Dove,
poet, writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, US poet laureate
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
Jean Toomer,
poet, writer
February is Black History Month

Quotes February 23, 2022

We need to stop our myopic focus on where people are struggling and instead invest in the initiatives people are taking to get ahead.
Mauricio Lim Miller
 
 
 
 
Do less; observe more; enjoy most.
Magda Gerber
 
 
 
 
“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.”
Ambrose Bierce
 
 
 
 
The forest is not merely an expression or representation of sacredness, nor a place to invoke the sacred; the forest is sacredness itself.
Richard Nelson
 
 
 
 
The secret in singing is found between the vibration in the singer’s voice and the throb in the hearer’s heart.
Kahlil GIbran
 
 
 
 
Every being has its own important and unique place in the cosmic dance.
Lawrence Overmire
 
 
 
 
The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.
BB King – 1925-2015 – Blues Singer-Songwriter-Musician
 
 
 
 
There is deep beauty in not averting our gaze. No matter how hard it is, no matter how heartbreaking it can be. It is about presence. It is about bearing witness.
Terry Tempest Williams
 
 
 
 
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.
Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don’t really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
Althea Gibson,
professional tennis player, first Black winner of a Grand Slam title
February is Black History Month

Quotes January 24, 2022

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.
Dave Eggers,
writer, editor, publisher
 
 
 
 
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
Amelia Earhart
 
 
 
 
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
George Orwell
 
 
 
 
I have relied heavily on adrenaline to push me from one place to another—but this year I’m setting an intention to move only from peace and presence.
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 
 
 
The only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.
James Forrestal, First United States Secretary of Defense – 1947-49
 
 
 
 
I always think it’s a sign of victory when they move on to the ad hominem.
Christopher Hitchens
 
 
Ad hominem is a notoriously weak logical argument. And is usually used to distract the focus of a discussion – to move it from an indefensible point and to attack the opponent.
Jim Butcher, Furies of Calderon
 
 
 
 
I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
James Joyce
 
 
 
 
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
Jeanette Winterson
 
 
 
 
I am very short-sighted, and if I don’t like a situation I take my glasses off.
Jenny Eclair

Quotes January 16, 2022

If you continue to think the way you’ve always thought, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always got.
Paul J. Meyer – 1928-2009 – Author
 
 
 
 
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!
Audrey Hepburn,
actor, humanitarian
 
 
 
 
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
The future is not to be forecast, but created.
Arthur C. Clarke,
writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, television series host
 
 
 
 
Start with a yes and see where that takes you.
Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.
Tina Fey,
actor, comedian, writer, producer
 
 
 
 
The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic. Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.
Nick Bilton
 
 
 
 
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. And if that doesn’t work out for you, tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life.
Bob Saget,
comedian, actor, television host
1956-2022

Quotes January 05 & 06, 2022

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
George Orwell
 
 
 
 
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
Plutarch
 
 
 
 
The life in front of you is far more important than the life behind you.
Joel Osteen – Pastor-Televangelist-Author
 
 
 
 
“The world is over-armed and peace is underfunded.”
Ban Ki-Moon
 
 
 
 
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
I am not a product of my circumstances I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey – 1932-2012-Educator-Author-Businessman-Keynote Speaker
 
 
 
 
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion,
writer
1934 -2021
 
 
 
 
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
John Madden,
American football coach, sports commentator
1936-2021
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
Frederick Douglass

Quotes December 06, 2021

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
James Baldwin
 
 
 
 
Go as far as you can see. When you get there you will see how you can go farther.
Thomas Carlyle – 1795-1881 – British Historian-Essayist-Philosopher-Mathematician-Teacher
 
 
 
 
The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.
Ian Fleming,
writer, journalist, naval intelligence officer
 
 
 
 
One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
G.K. Chesterton,
writer, philosopher, critic
 
 
 
 
Lies require noise and misdirection to blend in, silence is the best way to draw the truth to the surface.
Anna Pitoniak
 
 
 
 
What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
Anne Frank,
diarist
 
 
 
 
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
 
 
 
You should never become lazy. It’s essential to remain positive about your life and never give up. You need to push yourself and stay aware, so you can move forward.
Tsuneko Sasamoto
 
 
 
 
Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.
Virginia Woolf
 
 
 
 
Deceit, distortion, misdirection, and concealment are all lies in altered masks.
Richelle E. Goodrich
 
 
 
 
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
Thomas Sowell
 
 
 
 
It’s hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.
Lisa Randall
 
 
 
 
December is the holdout month, all the others torn away.
Anne Gisleson,
writer
 
 
 
 
It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.
Sarah Kay,
poet

Quotes November 21, 2021

“It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.”
Thích Nhất Hạnh
 
 
 
 
Time is the most valuable thing you have — and I’m not just talking about the minutes for which you’re paid.
Eli Broad,
entrepreneur, businessman, philanthropist
 
 
 
 
The purpose creates the machine.
Arthur Young – 1741-1820 – English Writer on Agriculture, Politics, Economics
 
 
 
 
You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.
C.S. Lewis,
writer
 
 
 
 
Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.
Bryan Stevenson
 
 
 
 
When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Daniel Webster
 
 
 
 
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell
 
 
 
 
How many jiffies in an hour, how many soons in an afternoon? How many fasts does it take to make a slow?
Amy Leach
 
 
 
 
The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it.
Be kind both to bad and good, for you don’t know your own heart.
Sarah Winnemucca,
Northern Paiute author, activist, educator
November is Native American Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
When we listen, we open ourselves to new, joyous relationships with species other than our own.
Kathleen Dean Moore
 
 
 
 
If you deeply observe, everything is your teacher.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Energy is contagious. Surround yourself with those who inspire you to shine through the fog!
Anonymous

Quotes October 05, 2021

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
Gertrude Stein
 
 
 
 
It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.
Louise Bourgeois – 1911-2010 – Painter-Printmaker-Known for Large-Scale Sculpture and Installation Artwork
 
 
 
 
To whom today can you offer a simple kindness of good wishes or forgiveness?
Warmly,
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 
 
 
We can’t let people drive wedges between us … because there’s only one human race.
Dolores Huerta,
labor leader, civil rights activist
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
One of the greatest things you have in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be.
Jaime Escalante,
educator
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15

Quotes September 26, 2021

“The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family – striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.”
Kofi Annan
 
 
 
 
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
W. Somerset Maugham – 1874-1965 – Novelist-Short-Story Writer-English Playwright
 
 
 
 
“You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate the task and allow the citizens of this country to pretend that there is real distance between their own attitudes and those of the ones appointed to protect them. The truth is that the police reflect America in all of its will and fear, and whatever we might make of this country’s criminal justice policy, it cannot be said that it was imposed by a repressive minority.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
 
 
 
 
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
Ernest Hemingway
 
 
 
 
The small happy moments add up. A little bit of joy goes a long way.
Melissa McCarthy – Actress-Comedian-Producer-Writer-Fashion Designer
 
 
 
 
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 – 1906-1945 – German Protestant Theologian
 
 
 
 
I have to trust what I do and then do it.
Ednita Nazario – Musician-Singer-Composer
 
 
 
 
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci – 1452-1519 – Painter, Inventor
 
 
 
 
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden – 1910-2010 – American Basketball Player

Quotes September 12, 2021

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.”
William Faulkner
 
 
 
 
“My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.”
Bryan Stevenson
 
 
 
 
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr. Seuss – 1904-1991 – Author-Political Cartoonist-Illustrator-Poet-Animator-Filmmaker
 
 
 
 
“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
Thomas Jefferson
 
 
 
 
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank – 1929-1945 – German-Dutch Diarist-Jewish Holocaust Victim
 
 
 
 
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.
Albert Einstein – 1879-1955 – Theoretical Physicist
 
 
 
 
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
Oscar Wilde – 1854-1900 – Irish Poet
 
 
 
 
So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – 1803-1882 – Lecturer-Poet-Essayist
 
 
 
 
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch – Greek Philosopher
 
 
 
 

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.
If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.
Anonymous