Tag: Positivity

Quotes July 30, 2024

“Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.”
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
 
 
 
 
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
Jane Howard
 
 
 
 
It was the most beautiful scene — a feeling that we’re all in this together.
Theresa Pathak
 
 
 
 
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
Somewhere along the way, I think I’ve made the decision: I’m going to write in my own handwriting.
Wes Anderson,
filmmaker
 
 
 
 

The way you live is your message to the world. Make sure it inspires.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 25, 2024

A better-informed world is a better world. … Leave it just a little bit better than it was when you found it.
Ben Bradlee,
journalist, newspaper editor
 
 
 
 
“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.”
MOHSIN HAMID
 
 
 
 
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
 
 
 
 
You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.
Michelle Obama
 
 
 
 
Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.
Mandy Hale
 
 
 
 
Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.
Anonymous
 
 

Quotes July 10, 2024

You are the End and I am / what follows. Who should have mercy / on what follows if not the End?

I sing this morning: Hello, hello. / I proclaim the bright day of the soul.
Stanley Moss,
poet, publisher, art dealer
1925-2024
 
 
 
 
Cooking is one of the great gifts you can give to those you love. It says, ‘you’re important enough to me to spend the time and effort to cook for you.’
Ina Garten,
cook, cookbook writer, entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
“Love the people around you. Love the life you have. I can’t think of a more powerful response to life’s sorrows than loving.”
SULEIKA JAOUAD
 
 
 
 
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
Alexander Graham Bell
 
 
 
 
“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”
Walter Anderson
 
 
 
 
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau – 1817-1862 – Essayist
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 17-19, 224

Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.
Wendy Flynn – Consultant
 
 
 
 
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen – 1828-1906 – Norwegian Playwright
 
 
 
 
The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisions.
Goldie Hawn – American Actress
 
 
 
 
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller – 1880-1968 – Author
 
 
 
 
You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.
Marianne Williamson – Author
 
 
 
 
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
Heraclitus
 
 
 
 
A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.
Jim Watkins, American Anchor and Journalist
 
 
 
 
“My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
 
 
 
 
Leaving a lasting legacy is about more than achieving great things. When you treat others well and create a reputation of integrity, you’ll set a powerful example for leaders to come.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes May 21, 2024

The great thing about music, it’s an open sky, it just never ends.
My favorite record is the one I haven’t made yet.
David Sanborn,
alto saxophonist
1945-2024
 
 
 
 
Forget regret / Or life is yours to miss / No other road / No other way / No day but today
Another dance / Another way / Another chance / Another day
Jonathan Larson,
composer, lyricist, playwright
 
 
 
 
We say of some things that they can’t be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do — we do it all the time.
Alice Munro,
writer
1931-2024
 
 
 
 
Don’t be afraid to invent your own future.
Zena Cardman
 
 
 
 
A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.
Nelson Mandela – 1918-2013 – President of South Africa 1994-1999-Humanitarian-Social Activist
 
 
 
 
The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
Bobby Knight – American Basketball Coach
 
 
 
 
One word of encouragement can be enough to spark someone’s motivation to continue with a difficult challenge.
Roy T. Bennett – 1939-2014 – Author
 
 
 
 
If you really want to be successful and you really want to be happy, don’t have a job, have a purpose. When you’ve got a purpose, the whole world is your office.
Paulo Coelho – Author
 
 

Quotes May 13-15

I try to remember we can always make a difference no matter how difficult things are. There’s no such thing as small. … Big or small, it’s all big.
Helen Zia,
writer, journalist, activist
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
As my Aunty Aima’a always says, Once a cup of water is spilled, it can never be retrieved.
Sia Figiel,
poet, writer
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Twisted tight / the patterns of our ancestors / are revealed. / Twisted tight the shape / will come.
Imaikalani Kalahele,
poet, artist
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
It’s not something that is normalized in our culture, but it’s a very good skill to learn: to be vulnerable enough to ask for help and to receive help.
Jennifer Pharr Davis,
long-distance hiker, environmental activist, entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
All I want anyone to get out of my paintings is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any conclusion.
What you see is what you see.
Frank Stella,
painter, sculptor, printmaker
1936-2024
 
 
 
 
What do you value? What do you want to improve for others? The answers to these questions can be found in the present and will carry through a lifetime.
Zena Cardman,
astronaut
 
 
 
 
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie – 1867-1934 – French-Polish Physicist
 
 
 
 
It’s just something that’s happening around us. It’s a reminder of the pageantry of nature. It can be very beautiful if you allow for that in your heart.
Jonathan Larson,
entomologist
on the emergence of the double brood of periodical cicadas
 
 
 
 
Classics:

The hard days are what make you stronger.
Aly Raisman – American Gymnast-Model
 
 
 
 
There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.
Roger Staubach – Former Football Player
 
 
 
 
If you start now you will start seeing the result one day earlier than if you wait until tomorrow.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes May 13-15, 2024

I try to remember we can always make a difference no matter how difficult things are. There’s no such thing as small. … Big or small, it’s all big.
Helen Zia,
writer, journalist, activist
 
 
 
 
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
As my Aunty Aima’a always says, Once a cup of water is spilled, it can never be retrieved.
Sia Figiel,
poet, writer
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Twisted tight / the patterns of our ancestors / are revealed. / Twisted tight the shape / will come.
Imaikalani Kalahele,
poet, artist
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
It’s not something that is normalized in our culture, but it’s a very good skill to learn: to be vulnerable enough to ask for help and to receive help.
Jennifer Pharr Davis,
long-distance hiker, environmental activist, entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
All I want anyone to get out of my paintings is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any conclusion.
What you see is what you see.
Frank Stella,
painter, sculptor, printmaker
1936-2024
 
 
 
 
What do you value? What do you want to improve for others? The answers to these questions can be found in the present and will carry through a lifetime.
Zena Cardman,
astronaut
 
 
 
 
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie – 1867-1934 – French-Polish Physicist
 
 
 
 
It’s just something that’s happening around us. It’s a reminder of the pageantry of nature. It can be very beautiful if you allow for that in your heart.
Jonathan Larson,
entomologist
on the emergence of the double brood of periodical cicadas
 
 
 
 
Classics

The hard days are what make you stronger.
Aly Raisman – American Gymnast-Model
 
 
 
 
There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.
Roger Staubach – Former Football Player
 
 
 
 
If you start now you will start seeing the result one day earlier than if you wait until tomorrow.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes April 28, 2024

“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
Eleonora Duse
 
 
 
 
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
 
 
 
“Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.”
Booth Tarkington
 
 
 
 
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
Robert Frost
 
 
 
 
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
 
 
 
 
“Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.”
Hermann Hesse
 
 
 
 
“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 
 
 
 
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
“I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.”
Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 

Quotes April 04, 2024

I have no son or daughter / to mourn my final moments / but I will go anyway / and not go home / on the way
Neeli Cherkovski,
poet, biographer
1945-2024
 
 
 
 
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
William Hazlitt,
essayist, drama and literary critic, social commentator
 
 
 
 
Become so confident in who you are that no one’s behavior, opinion, or rejection can affect you.
Brad Turnbull – Author
 
 
 
 
Be the curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, and with what makes you happy.
Leo Babauta – Author
 
 
 
 
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.
Gever Tulley – Writer
 
 
 
 
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
James Baldwin,
writer
 
 

Quotes Mach 18-19, 2024

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank – 1929-1945 – German-Dutch Diarist-Jewish Holocaust Victim
 
 
 
 
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton – 1643-1727 – Mathematician-Physicist-Astronomer-Author
 
 
 
 
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill – 1874-1965 – Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom-Author-British Statesman
 
 
 
 
Optimism is true moral courage.
Ernest Shackleton – 1874-1922 – Explorer
 
 
 
 
On my darkest days, gratitude is my light.
Alex Elle – Author-Wellness Educator-Podcast Host