Tag: Positivity

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
 
 

Quotes March 10-13, 2024

If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.
Meryl Streep,
actor
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
My Islamic faith taught me that if you can’t change something with your hands, change it with your tongue, and if you can’t change it with your tongue, then desire to change it in your heart.
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh,
writer, activist, tech entrepreneur
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
“The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.”
Marcus Aurelius
 
 
 
 
Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart.
Marcel Proust
 
 
 
 
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
Katharine Hepburn
 
 
 
 
“Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.”
Joe Montana
 
 
 
 
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
If life shuts a door, open it. Its a door. That’s how they work.
Graffiti
 
 
 
 
Be brave when you are scared, and humble when you are victorious.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
When you see your worth, you’ll find it harder to stay around people who don’t.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes March 04-06, 2024

Truly, the reason I went onstage is to have people listen to me talk about my feelings without someone saying, ‘Pass the meatloaf.’
Richard Lewis,
comedian, actor
1947-2024
 
 
 
 
“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”
Neil Gaiman
 
 
 
 
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw
 
 
 
 
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick – Writer
 
 
 
 
Change is your friend not your foe; change is a brilliant opportunity to grow.
Simon T. Bailey – Author-Speaker
 
 
 
 
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive.
Hans Lelye – 1907-1982 – Endocrinologist-Founder of Stress Theory
 
 
 
 
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin – 1840-1917 – Sculptor
 
 
 
 
My perspective will create my perception.
Neale Donald Walsch – Author
 
 
 
 
“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
Franz Kafka
 
 
 
 
If you want to stay young, you have to think young. Having a sense of wonder, a sense of humor, and a sense of curiosity — these are my tonic.
Iris Apfel,
businessperson, interior designer, fashion icon
1921-2024
March is Women’s History Month