Tag: Positivity

Quotes July 14, 2021

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
“The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.”
Harry S. Truman
 
 
 
 
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
 
 
 
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
John Muir
 
 
 
 
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
 
 
 
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow, it’s all the same day.
Janis Joplin – 1943-1970 – American Singer-Songwriter
 
 
 
 
You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.
Andrew Murphy – Olympic Athlete
 
 
 
 
Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots, and gillyflowers.
Sara Coleridge,
poet, writer, translator
 
 
 
 
To realize our dreams we must decide to wake up.
All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.
Josephine Baker,
dancer, entertainer, actor, civil rights activist
 
 
 
 
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
George Clooney,
actor, director, producer, screenwriter
 
 
 
 
It’s okay to think of yourself when working on your dream. Do it for you, not anyone else.
Unknown

Quotes June 07, 2021

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.
William Osler, 1849-1919 – Canadian Physician
 
 
 
 
What would happen if we spoke the truth?
Alison Bechdel,
cartoonist, writer
 
 
 
 
I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
I’m an advocate for people discovering and finding what works for them.
Tracee Ellis Ross,
actor, singer, producer, director
 
 
 
 
Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don’t forget to have art in your life — music, paintings, theater, dance and sunsets.
Ultimately, my aim is to entertain, and sometimes to enlighten, the child who still lives inside of me. This is always where I begin.
Eric Carle,
writer, illustrator, designer
1929-2021
 
 
 
 
Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don’t do it for anyone else.
Keith Haring,
artist, social activist
 
 
 
 
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.
George Takei,
actor, writer, activist
 
 
 
 
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804 – Philosopher

Quotes May 24, 2021

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher – 1813-1887 – American Minister
 
 
 
 
Remember you are this universe and this
universe is you.
Joy Harjo
 
 
 
 
Always there is this primary place of belonging in the land and in our souls. It used to be a part of the way we lived, how we walked and breathed.
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
 
 
 
 
Trees do not preach learning and precepts. They preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life
Hermann Hesse
 
 
 
 
All of us are knowers, all the time; it is only occasionally and in spite of ourselves that we understand the mystery of given reality.
Aldous Huxley
 
 
 
 
All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.
T.S. Eliot
 
 
 
 
Even a rainbow has seven colors.
We are just equal human beings. We have the same warm heart.
Yuh-Jung Youn,
actor
 
 
 
 
I try to believe like I believed when I was five … when your heart tells you everything you need to know.
Lucy Liu,
actor, director, producer, artist
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stop yourself from dreaming.
Jenny Han,
writer
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
It’s hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn’t care about the answer.
Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.
Charles Grodin,
actor, writer, talk show host
1935-2021
 
 
 
 
My invention is just an ordinary invention in an extraordinary time.
Peter Tsai,
materials scientist, creator of the N95 mask
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
It is more often more important to be ahead of the majority and this means being willing to cut the first furrow in the ground and stand alone for a while if necessary.
Patsy Mink,
politician, co-author of Title IX, first woman of color elected to US Congress
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Quotes May 23, 2021

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller – 1608-1661 – English Churchman-Historian
 
 
 
 
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire – 1694-1778 – French Writer
 
 
 
 
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust – 1871-1922 – French Novelist
 
 
 
 
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Henry Adams – 1838-1918 – American Historian
 
 
 
 
Looking at the Earth and the universe from the stand point of awe, wonder and radical amazement at the grandeur and magnificent mystery of all being. That’s what the new bottom line is about.
Rabbi Michael Lerner
 
 
 
 
There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
Margaret J. Wheatley
 
 
 
 
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
The patterns we perceive are determined by the stories we want to believe.
John Verndon
 
 
 
 
In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.
Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
Ego says, “Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace”. Spirit says, “Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place”.
Marianne Williamson
 
 
 
 
Attending to life is an act of love.
Katie Rubinstein
 
 
 
 
Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.
Tsai Ing-wen
 
 
 
 
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
 
 
 
 
After all, nothing depends on how things turn out–only on how you see them when they happen
Gregory Boyle
 
 
 
 
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
Amit Ray
 
 
 
 
I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson – 1830-1886 – American Lyric Poet
 
 
 
 
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey

Quotes March 06, 2021

Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Wislawa Szymborska
 
 
 
 
Just living is not enough…one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson
 
 
 
 
Conflict can be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither side loses and a new dance is created.
Thomas Crum
 
 
 
 
Addictions always originate in pain, whether felt openly or hidden in the unconscious.
Gabor Mate
 
 
 
 
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri Frederic Amiel
 
 
 
 
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe
 
 
 
 
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin
 
 
 
 
In all my deeds may I probe into my mind, and as soon as mental and emotional afflictions arise– as they endanger myself and others– may I strongly confront them and avert them.
Geshe Langri Thangpa
 
 
 
 
A man of wisdom delights in water.
Confucius
 
 
 
 
These three things leads to positive non-linear results: clarity, focus, and time. Simple but not easy.
Shane Parrish
 
 
 
 
I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
 
 
 
 
Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, fear of each other, distancing and blame, or we can take the much more difficult path, the road of transformation, transcendence, compassion, and love, but also accountability and justice.
Jacqueline Novogratz
 
 
 
 
Become comfortable with permanent uncertainty.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Life is better when your laughing.
Unknown

Quotes March 02, 2021

Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect.
Rhonda Byrne
 
 
 
 
You enter life a ship laden with meaning, purpose and gifts
sent to be delivered to a hungry world.
And as much as the world needs your cargo,
you need to give it away.
Everything depends on this.
Greg Kimura
 
 
 
 
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
Harriet Goldhor Lerner
 
 
 
 
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
Wendell Berry
 
 
 
 
Only when our feet learn once again how to walk in a sacred manner, and our hearts hear the real music of creation, can we bring the world back into balance.
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
 
 
 
 
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e.e. cummings
 
 
 
 
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Havelock Ellis
 
 
 
 
Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.
D.H. Lawrence
 
 
 
 
Love is first and foremost exemplified by action –by practice — not solely by feeling.
bell hooks
 
 
 
 
Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action.
Leonard Bernstein
 
 
 
 
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart
 
 
 
 
By activating your own goodness within, under any circumstances –especially in hard or difficult conditions — life itself will lead to goodness.
Master Mingtong Gu

Quotes February 28, 2021

You don’t get in life what you want. You get what you are.
Jackie Lapin
 
 
 
 
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.
Ernest Hemingway,
writer, journalist, Nobel Prize winner
 
 
 
 
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril. Without free animal life, I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
Alice Walker
 
 
 
 
The witchery of living
is my whole conversation
with you, my darlings.
All I can tell you is what I know.
Mary Oliver
 
 
 
 
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
Jose Saramago
 
 
 
 
For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
Bruce Lee
 
 
 
 
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Rumi
 
 
 
 
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Rainer Maria Rilke
 
 
 
 
The subtle source is clear and bright, the tributary streams run through the darkness.
Shitou Xiqian
 
 
 
 
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michaelangelo
 
 
 
 
To share such a moment of deep tranquility with another being, especially one as different from us as the octopus, is a humbling privilege.
Sy Montgomery
 
 
 
 
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
Muhammad Ali,
professional heavyweight boxer, social activist, entertainer, philanthropist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
Simply by changing your own behavior, you gain at least some influence over the problem.
Douglas Stone

Quotes February 20, 2021

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward
 
 
 
 
Don’t follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail.
Ruby Bridges,
civil rights activist, first Black student to desegregate an all-white elementary school in the South
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
Toni Morrison,
writer, editor, educator
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Franz Kafka,
writer
 
 
 
 
Talking is fantastically overrated. Too many people do too much of it. It stuns the hell out of me how so many people like to talk. Sharkey, for example. If talking is so good for you, what the hell is Sharkey doing here? The guy tears me up. Talking does not heal you. Talking just adds to the noise pollution in the world. If we were really serious about going green, then maybe we’d all just be quiet.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
 
 
 
 
I won’t say another word — not one. I know I talk too much, but I am really trying to overcome it, and although I say far too much, yet if you only knew how much I want to say and don’t, you’d give me some credit for it
L.M. Montgomery
 
 
 
 
“The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.”
Nathan Myhrvold
 
 
 
 
“Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries… They Die.”
Demetri Martin
 
 
 
 
“Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.”
Henry Paulson
 
 
 
 
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
Jodi Picoult
 
 
 
 
But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.
Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
Stop stressing over things you can’t control or change. Overthinking leads to negative thoughts. Be grateful and focus on the positive.
Unknown

Quotes February 06, 2021

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.
Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 
Your words are very powerful and what you say matters; keep them positive and powerful.
Farshad Asl
 
 
 
 
Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.
Meg Wheatley
 
 
 
 
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Albert Camus
 
 
 
 
Go where your best prayers take you.
Frederick Buechner
 
 
 
 
“We cannot walk alone.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
 
 
 
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise Pascal
 
 
 
 
Consciousness is never static or complete but is an unending process of movement and unfoldment.
David Bohm
 
 
 
 
The Hopis consider running a form of prayer; they offer every step as a sacrifice to a loved one, and in return ask the Great Spirit to match their strength with some of his own.
Christopher McDougall
 
 
 
 
Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?
Mary Oliver
 
 
 
 
The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
Bill Drayton
 
 
 
 
What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart.
Marshall B. Rosenberg

Quotes February 04, 2021

Everyone has something to teach you if you are humble enough to learn.
Mark Driscoll
 
 
 
 
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey,
educator, writer, businessperson, speaker
 
 
 
 
I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.
Cicely Tyson,
actor
1924-2021
 
 
 
 
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
Orson Welles,
actor, director, screenwriter, producer
 
 
 
 
Sacrifices are not in vain. At the end, everything will pay off.
Believe, don’t fear, believe.
Gabby Douglas,
gymnast, Olympic medalist, Olympic individual all-around champion
 
 
 
 
At the end of the day, remind yourself that you did the best you could today, and that is good enough.
Lori Deschene
 
 
 
 
It’s not about having the perfect relationship. It’s about finding someone who matches you and will go through everything without giving up.
Unknown