Tag: Positivity

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

Quotes January 17, 2021

I have been to the end of the earth, I have been to the end of the waters, I have been to the end of the sky, I have been to the end of the mountains, I have found none that are not my friends.
Navajo Proverbs
 
 
 
 
There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyze.
George McDonald
 
 
 
 
I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we’re struggling to regain.
Carl Safina
 
 
 
 
Trauma decontextualized in a person looks like personality. Trauma decontextualized in a family looks like family traits. Trauma in a people looks like culture.
Resmaa Menakem
 
 
 
 
What is humanity, really, but a family of families?
Vivek Murthy
 
 
 
 
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Aristotle
 
 
 
 
Both race and our reactivity to it are worthy of being brought with skillful engagement into mindfulness practice.
Rhonda Magee
 
 
 
 
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.
Elie Wiesel
 
 
 
 
Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.
Starhawk
 
 
 
 
Anger expressed in a healthy and positive way means that we channel emotional anger towards resolution not attack.
Byron R. Pulsifer
 
 
 
 
To be loving we willingly hear each other’s truth and, most important, we affirm the value of truth telling.
To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.
bell hooks
 
 
 
 
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
Malcolm X
 
 
 
 
The universe looks after you when you look after you. Keep doing the inner work.
Unknown

Quotes January 16, 2021

I wouldn’t ask anyone to do anything I wouldn’t do myself.
Indra Nooyi,
business executive
 
 
 
 
The most beautiful part of your body is where it’s headed.
If we are lucky, the end of the sentence is where we might begin.
Ocean Vuong,
poet, writer
 
 
 
 
Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
Melinda Gates,
philanthropist, advocate for women and girls
 
 
 
 
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc,
businessman
 
 
 
 
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn’t writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
Ken Kesey
 
 
 
 
The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
Raymond Chandler
 
 
 
 
In the end, I am quite normal. I don’t have odd habits. I don’t dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don’t talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer’s block, all those things that we hear about writers. I don’t have any of those problems, but I do have problems just like any other person doing any other type of work. Sometimes things do not come out as I want them to, or they don’t come out at all. When things do not come out as well as I would have liked, I have to resign myself to accepting them as they are.
José Saramago
 
 
 
 
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have ‘essential’ and ‘long overdue’ meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.
J.K. Rowling
 
 
 
 
Be thankful for your failures. They reveal the winning strategies.
James Clear
 
 
 
 
If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters — 204 if you’re in Japan.
Claire Cook
 
 
 
 
Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured… Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.
Susan Cain
 
 
 
 
To be passive is to let others decide for you. To be aggressive is to decide for others. To be assertive is to decide for yourself. And to trust that there is enough, that you are enough.
Edith Eva Eger
 
 
 
 
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Steve Jobs
 
 
 
 
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire
 
 
 
 
When you choose to forgive those who have hurt you, you take away their power.
Unknown

Quotes December 31, 2020

I really believe we are meant to feel loved, we’re meant to feel connected, we’re meant to feel like we belong together.
Lydia Fairhall
 
 
 
 
Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
Henri Nouwen
 
 
 
 
I love a broad margin to my life.
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
Le microbe n’est rien, le terrain est tout.
(The microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything.)
Louis Pasteur
 
 
 
 
Our waiting is not nothing. It is something — a very big something — because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.
Barbara Brown Taylor
 
 
 
 
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
Frances Hodgson Burnettnnbv
 
 
 
 
Injustices started when we began to lose our relationship to nature and treat it just as a resource to be commodified.
Cherrie Moraga
 
 
 
 
The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us. And the task of building a good habit is like cultivating a delicate flower one day at a time.
James Clear
 
 
 
 

(Always)
Believe in yourself, even when everyone else doesn’t.
Unknown

Quotes December 24, 2020

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both right. Which one are you?
Henry Ford
 
 
 
 
It’s not the failures in our life that define us, it’s the moments when we decide that getting back up is all that matters.
Joel Brown
 
 
 
 
You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that’s a great feeling.
Shaun White
 
 
 
 
When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.
Sarah Jessica Parker
 
 
 
 
The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.
Criss Jami
 
 
 
 
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Charlotte Bronte,
writer
 
 
 
 
Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.
Frederic Chopin,
composer, pianist
 
 
 
 
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
Diane Sawyer,
broadcast journalist
 
 
 
 
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken
 
 
 
 
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.
Rainer Maria Rilke,
poet, writer

Quotes November 25, 2020

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.
Dennis Lehane
 
 
 
 
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than for illumination.
Andrew Lang
 
 
 
 
Peace is happiness at rest. Happiness is peace in motion.
Yvan Amar
 
 
 
 
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.
Oprah Winfrey,
talk show host, media executive, actor, philanthropist
 
 
 
 
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
Les Brown
 
 
 
 
I’m most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He’s given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I’ll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
Martin Lawrence
 
 
 
 
The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
 
 
 
 
A good forecaster is not smarter than everyone else, he merely has his ignorance better organised.
Anonymous

Quotes November 21, 2020

You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
Rumi
 
 
 
 
Self-love is the highest frequency that attracts to you everything you want.
Idil Ahmed
 
 
 
 
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
Ashley Smith
 
 
 
 
“The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.”
Oprah Winfrey
 
 
 
 
Be like the bluebird who never is blue/For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do.
Live and let live, be and let be/Hear and let hear, see and let see.
Cole Porter,
composer, songwriter

Quotes November 19, 2020

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
 
 
 
 
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to chose one thought over another.
William James
 
 
 
 
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
 
 
 
 
We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.
People really don’t have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you.
Aretha Franklin,
singer
 
 
 
 
Sometimes you’ve got to go to the wrong place just to show that you’re not afraid to go there.
Leonardo DiCaprio,
actor, producer
 
 
 
 
The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
Iman Abdulmajid,
model, entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
I’ve always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.
I never see the dawn that I don’t say to myself perhaps.
John Dos Passos,
writer