Tag: Reminders

Quotes May 26, 2024

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim Rohn – 1930-2009 – American Entrepreneur-Author
 
 
 
 
To love what you do and feel that it matters — how could anything be more fun?
Katharine Graham,
newspaper publisher
 
 
 
 
What you see is what you see.
Frank Stella,
painter, sculptor, printmaker
1936-2024
 
 
 
 
“The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.”
JHUMPA LAHIRI
 
 
 
 
“May I be awake enough to notice when love appears and bold enough to pursue it without knowing where it will end.”
SULEIKA JAOUAD
 
 
 
 
“Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden — in all the places.”
​FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT, THE SECRET GARDEN
 
 
 
 
“Leaning on others is a beautiful act of self-compassion.”
SALLY CLARKE
 
 
 
 
“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”
JOHN O’DONOHUE
 
 
 
 
“The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.”
DEEPAK CHOPRA
 
 
 
 
“Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.”
ROY T. BENNETT
 
 
 
 

Quotes April 06-07, 2024

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.
Brene Brown – Professor-Social Worker-Author-Podcast Host
 
 
 
 
Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.
Hazrat Inayat Khan – 1882-1927 – Professor
 
 
 
 
Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.
Harold S. Kushner – American Rabbi-Author
 
 
 
 
‘I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.’
Sylvia Plath
 
 
 
 
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
Stanley Kubrick
 
 
 
 
What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
 
 
 
 
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono
 
 

Quotes January 06, 2024

Who is this person I’ve been looking at fairly continuously for a long time? He’s still a bit of a mystery.
When I look in the mirror, it’s not what I look like that I’m interested in. It’s who I am.
Tom Wilkinson,
actor
1948-2023
 
 
 
 
Television should be as free as the movies, as the newspapers, as music to reflect what’s happening.
There’s nothing better than getting a laugh. And there’s nothing worse than trying to get a laugh and missing.
Tom Smothers,
comedian, actor, composer, musician
1937-2023
 
 
 
 
New Year — a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.
Alex Morritt,
writer, poet
 
 
 
 
As you think you vibrate. As you vibrate you attract.
Abraham Hicks – American Inspirational Speaker-Author
 
 
 
 
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Viktor E. Frankl
 
 
 
 
“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”
Gustave Flaubert
 
 
 
 
“Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.”
Friedrich Schiller
 
 
 
 
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Robin Williams – 1951-2014 – Comedian-Actor
 
 
 
 
A pandemic of joy is the only cure for a more peaceful, just, sustainable, healthier, and joyful world.
Deepak Chopra – Indian-American Author-Alternative Medicine Advocate
 
 
 
 
“To be doing good deeds is man’s most glorious task.”
Sophocles
 
 
 
 
Strive for progress, not perfection.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes December 17, 2021

“The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country”

“It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier [with]discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self-confidence born of demonstrated ability.”
George S. Patton Jr.
 
 
 
 
“For the first time in a long time, I felt like I had a purpose being in the Navy. It wasn’t about money and rank or prestige. It was about raising the flag. We do what we do because no one else can or will do it. We fight so others can sleep at night. And I had forgotten that.”
Timothy Ciciora
 
 
 
 
“Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.”
Douglas MacArthur
 
 
 
 
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
 
 
 
“Hopefully one-day Wars will only be fought in movies. And may the best producer win!”
Stanley Victor Paskavich