Tag: Repeats

Quotes February 07, 2023

I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I’d like to say I’m a big fan of forgiveness as long as I’m given the opportunity to get even first.
Courtesy served as an artful disguise that veiled the more profound dialogue of fantasy and desire.”
Sue Grafton,
V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone Book 22)
 
 
 
 
Drowning people sometimes die fighting their rescuers.
Octavia Butler
 
 
 
 
I don’t have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit.
Elizabeth Taylor
 
 
 
 
The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don’t know what you’re doing, someone else does.
Immanuel Kant
 
 
 
 
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolfe
 
 
 
 
Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.
Shannon L. Alder
 
 
 
 
Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.
Lady Gaga
 
 
 
 
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
J.R.R. Tolkien
 
 
 
 
Every moment of your life is a second chance.
Rick Price
 
 
 
 
The real power of a man is in the size of the smile of the woman sitting next to him.
Anonymous

Quotes June 17, 2019

“Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don’t base your self-esteem on their opinions.”
Harvey Mackay
 
 
 
 
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
 
 
 
 
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Howard Thurman
 
 
 
 
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
Jack London
 
 
 
 
“Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.”
Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius
 
 
 
 
“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.”
Charles Richards
 
 
 
 
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
 
 
 
 
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”
Herman Hesse
 
 
 
 
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.”
Madame Marie du Deffand
 
 
 
 
“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”
Sydney J. Harris
 
 
 
 
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 
 
 
 
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus
 
 
 
 
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
Anne Bradstreet
 
 
 
 
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
 
 
 
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
Napoleon Hill
 
 
 
 
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
“I was thinking one day and I realized that if I just had somebody behind me all the way to motivate me I could make a big difference. Nobody came along like that so I just became that person for myself.”
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