Tag: Thoughts

Quotes January 25-26, 2025

Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.
Roy T. Bennett – 1939-2014 – Author
 
 
 
 
“We are all one. We’re not as separate as we oftentimes think.”
Alicia Keys
 
 
 
 
“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”
Arthur Ashe
 
 
 
 
Reminders:
Appreciation is the purest vibration that exists on the planet today.
Esther Hicks – Inspirational Speaker-Author
 
 
 
 
You deserve your dream.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 19, 2024

“There is no easy or quick or infallible approach to a secure peace. It is only by patient, persistent, undismayed effort, by trial and error, that peace can be won.”
Ralph Bunche
 
 
 
 
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
 
 
 
“My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.”
Dionne Warwick
 
 
 
 
“Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak–and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 
 
 
 
“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”
King George VI
 
 
 
 
“Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.”
Agnes Moorehead
 
 
 
 
The best time for new beginnings is now.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 18, 2024

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde – 1854-1900 – Poet-Playwright
 
 
 
 
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
“All good ideas start out as bad ideas; that’s why it takes so long.”
Steven Spielberg
 
 
 
 
“Where there is no work, there is no dignity.”
Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis)
 
 
 
 
“Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.”
Margaret Mead
 
 
 
 
“It’s almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.”
Patty Duke
 
 
 
 
“Just knowing you don’t have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn—and those are all good things.”
Dick Van Dyke
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 15, 20242

If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
Dolly Parton
 
 
 
 
… What lies beyond our comfort zone is really extraordinary.
Anne Veh
 
 
 
 
Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don’t learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.
Ronald A. Heifetz
 
 
 
 
Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness.
Ola Joseph
 
 
 
 
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
Happiness is not given to us, nor is misery imposed. At every moment we are at a crossroads and must choose the direction we will take.
Matthieu Ricard
 
 
 
 
The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship, or family, or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.
Maria Popova
 
 
 
 

Quotes November 10, 2024

What I learned early was that there was always somebody who knew more about a thing than you did, and the trick was to ask them the right question.
Jim Hoagland,
journalist, editor, Pulitzer Prize recipient
1940-2024
 
 
 
 
Whatever they want you to do is the thing that you must not do.
I believe that storytelling can be a strategy to help you make sense out of your life. It’s what I’ve done.
Dorothy Allison,
writer
1949-2024
 
 
 
 
First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.
Katherine Anne Porter,
writer, journalist
 
 
 
 

Quotes November 07, 2024

I think quite early on in a career, you have to be able to understand why the ‘no’ is happening. Of course, you can’t help but take it personally sometimes.
I like to be surprised by what people might think that I am capable of. And then I can be surprised by it, too.
Juno Temple,
actor
 
 
 
 
I always say it’s easier to get where you’re going if you know where you came from.
Quincy Jones
 
 
 
 
“It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.”
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
“Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.”
Walter Cronkite
 
 
 
 
“No big challenge has ever been solved, and no lasting improvement has ever been achieved, unless people dare to try something different.”
Tim Cook
 
 
 
 
Reminders:

“Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.”
Earvin “Magic” Johnson
 
 
 
 
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
Vince Lombardi
 
 
 
 
“Take your job seriously, but don’t take yourself too seriously.”
Alex Trebek
 
 
 
 

Quotes October 12-13, 2024

Anxiety is an emotion; it’s not a disease. It’s an essential part of your intelligence, and it brings you unique skills that are irreplaceable.
Karla McLaren
 
 
 
 
Every place, every landscape, is a site of memory and a site of erasure over different scales of time and space. Sand and stone are pieces of Earth’s memory; yet, you could also say that each of us is a terrain inscribed by memory and by loss.
Lauret Savoy
 
 
 
 
Everyday I wake up and think who am I going to hold up in song?
Melanie DeMore
 
 
 
 
Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
Maria von Trapp
 
 
 
 
The truth is, productivity is a by-product of a functional system, not a goal in and of itself. The question is not whether you are productive but what you are producing.
Celeste Headlee
 
 
 
 
Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss.
Elizabeth Alexander
 
 
 
 
Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides.
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 12, 2024

“So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.”
Billy Collins*
*The final line from the poem, The Names, US poet laureate Billy Collins’ ode to the victims of the 9/11 attack.
 
 
 
 
Once I found out I could communicate verbally again, it became a very important thing for me, like making up for lost time, making up for the years that I didn’t speak.
James Earl Jones,
actor
1931-2024
 
 
 
 
“Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up they will change the world.”
Jack Ma
 
 
 
 
“The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads—in the end—to the best within us.”
Jesse Owens
 
 
 
 
And indeed there will be time / To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”
T. S. Eliot,
poet, playwright
 
 
 
 
“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
There are moments in everyone’s life where the stars align.
I know I’m going to do this for the rest of my life. I know this is the path I need to follow, whatever that means for me, and whatever success that means for me is what I’m destined for.
Sabrina Carpenter,
singer, songwriter, actor
 
 
 
 
“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.” – Stephen Hawking
 
 
 
 
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
Queen Elizabeth II

 
 
 
 

Quotes September 03, 2024

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
Bruce Lee
 
 
 
 
You won’t find your worth entirely in someone else — you’ll find it in yourself, and then you will attract those who are worthy of your energy.
Angel Chernoff
 
 
 
 
“It’s those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.”
Malcolm Gladwell
 
 
 
 
The only serious enterprise is living.
Bernard Williams,
philosopher
 
 
 
 
Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 29, 2024

Always be a little kinder than necessary.
J.M. Barrie – 1860-1937 – Novelist-Playwright
 
 
 
 
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman
 
 
 
 
My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
Sebastian Faulks,
writer, journalist
 
 
 
 
I feel like I’m just being my 10-year-old self. … My whole persona is just me trying to honor that version of myself that I was never allowed to be.
Chappell Roan,
singer, songwriter
 
 
 
 
“Purpose is an essential element of you … the struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.”
Chadwick Boseman
 
 
 
 
“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”
Ingrid Bergman