Tag: Thoughts

Quotes April 29, 2024

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.
Max De Pree – 1924-2017 – American Businessman-Writer
 
 
 
 
You can’t change and be somebody else in the future unless you start becoming a little better at being that future person today.
Richie Norton – Author-Entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
Aldous Huxley
 
 
 
 
How far you go depends on what you want for yourself, how much you’re willing to leave on the floor.
Alicia Keys,
singer, songwriter, pianist
 
 
 
 
Forgiveness means you stop carrying around the pain of the past inside of you. So that you don’t bring it into every new place you go, allowing it to bubble up and explode on people who had nothing to do with causing you injury.
Doe Zantamata
 
 

Quotes March 30-31, April 01, 2024

I have not always fit comfortably into conventional political boxes.
Joe Lieberman,
politician, lawyer, US senator
1942-2024
 
 
 
 
“What we need to do is raise taxes on people who work for a living, little by little so that they become dependent on government,” Goldblume said.
“The idea is to get the vast majority of people in this country, people who work for a living, more dependent on government,” Trane said. “Then we’ve got them.”
Dennis Carstens, Cult Justice
 
 
 
 
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
G. K. Chesterton
 
 
 
 
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
Robert Greene – Author
 
 
 
 
The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.
Blue Bird of Bitterness
 
 
 
 
How high you fly is derived from how big you think.
Robin Sharma – Writer
 
 
 
 
“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
 
 
 
“What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.”
Céline Dion
 
 
 
 
“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.”
Marvin Gaye
 
 
 
 
“One cannot grow fine flowers in a thin soil.”
Virginia Woolf
 
 
 
 
“Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today.”
Amy Leigh Mercree
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.”
Patty Duke
 
 

Quotes March 25, 2024

“The most inspiring person is the one overcoming the fear of doing something, not the person who is excellent at it.”
billionaire_hustle
 
 
 
 
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
Walt Disney – 1901-1966, Entrepreneur, Animator and Film Producer
 
 
 
 
There is nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
Banksy,
pseudonymous street artist, political activist
 
 
 
 
“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”
Haruki Murakami

 
 
 
 

Quotes February 27, 2024

Don’t give up. Don’t give up the struggle. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Desmond Tutu,
Anglican archbishop, theologian, human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
George Orwell
 
 
 
 
“The greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they’re loved and capable of loving.”
Fred “Mister” Rogers
 
 
 
 
It’s time to start living the life we’ve imagined.
Henry James – 1843-1916 – Writer-Author-Novelist
 
 

Quotes 21-22, 2024

Literature taught me to be concerned about the moral life, in dance, too — how people behave toward one another, and what they take from and give to one another.
Joan Acocella,
dance and literature critic, writer
1945-2024
 
 
 
 
There’s really no point in asking what if? The only question worth asking is: what’s next?
Elton John,
singer, songwriter, pianist
 
 
 
 
We all make mistakes, don’t we? But if you can’t forgive yourself, you’ll always be an exile in your own life.
Curtis Sittenfeld,
writer
 
 
 
 
“You are perfectly cast in your life. I can’t imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda
 
 
 
 
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
“I did not realize I had made history until I read it in the paper the next day.”
Willie O’Ree
 
 
 
 
“Failure is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign that you are alive and growing.”
Buzz Aldrin
 
 
 
 
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
Francis Bacon
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
Big things are best said, are almost always said, in small words.
Peggy Noonan
 
 

Quotes January 07, 2024

“Listening well is a superpower.”
Kevin Kelly
 
 
 
 
“The people we love are built into us.”
May Sarton
 
 
 
 
“Love, like strength and courage, is a strange thing; the more we give the more we find we have to give.”
Olga Jacoby
 
 
 
 
“Character is power.”
Booker T. Washington
 
 
 
 
The smallest change in perspective can transform a life.
Oprah Winfrey – Actress – Talk Show Host – Producer – Philanthropist
 
 
 
 
“The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off—it’s with you all the time.”
Alvin Ailey
 
 
 
 
“It will take guts to admit that you have behaved in a way that prevents you from being your better self, and then choose to act differently.”
Sidney Poitier

 
 

Quotes December 14, 2023

I feel a bit like a journeyman actor who hears insistent cues from the wings that it’s time to quit the stage and wishes he could think of something memorable by way of farewell.
Edwin Yoder,
journalist, columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner
1934-2023
 
 
 
 
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Thomas Mann,
writer, critic, essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
 
 
 
 
The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James – 1842-1910 – Philosopher-Psychologist
 
 
 
 
I’m not pretending, I am who I am. I don’t have to placate that, I don’t have to trick or treat when it’s not October.
Deion Sanders,
American football coach, professional football player, professional baseball player
 
 
 
 
“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville
 
 
 
 
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
Peace Pilgrim
 
 
 
 
Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.
Claudia Hammond
 
 
 
 
Without warning, thresholds can open directly before our feet…In the ecstasy and loneliness of one’s life, there are certain times when blessing is nearer to us.
John O’Donohue
 
 
 
 
Everywhere people ask: “What can I actually do?” The answer is as simple as it is disconcerting: we can, each of us, work to put our own inner house in order.
E.F. Schumacher
 
 
 
 
We must never give up our love for the world.
Rt. Rev. Marc Andrus
 
 
 
 
Wildness is the preservation of the World.
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
I don’t think the common thread that runs through humanity is greed or power or these sorts of notions. It is this binding agent of loss. That, to me, is the thing that makes me able to look at anybody and feel connected to them, regardless of who they are. And I think there’s a power in that that isn’t really recognized.
Nick Cave
 
 
 
 
When you finally learn that a person’s behavior has more to do with their own internal struggle than you, you learn grace.”
Allison Aars
 
 

Quotes September 03, 2023

“If you’re as honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.”
Kate Spade
 
 
 
 
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”
Bobby Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“Always cry for love, never cry for pain.”
Prince Rogers Nelson, from “Sometimes It Snows in April”
 
 
 
 
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
 
 
 
 
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
Judy Garland
 
 
 
 
“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
Anne Frank
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.”
Thurgood Marshall
 
 
 
 
I’ll allow myself to be flawed. The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.
Amy Adams,
actor
 
 
 
 
A good narrative is a rudimentary structure, rather like a kidney.
When a line falls wrong, it simply isn’t right.
John Cheever,
writer
 
 
 
 
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
Iris Murdoch,
writer, philosopher
 
 
 
 
Change isn’t always good. Sometimes changing things is a terrible mistake.
I can tell you that I’d rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I’ve known.
Bob Barker,
television game show host
1923-2023
 
 

Quotes August 26, 2023

It was my belief something magical would happen. And some true magic did happen.
I’m on a mission. I’m moving on. And if you look for me, there’s only going to be dust.
Robbie Robertson,
singer, songwriter, guitarist
1943-2023
 
 
 
 
There’s no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.
It’s not so much about what you ask as what you don’t ask.
Michael Parkinson,
television host, broadcaster, journalist
1935-2023
 
 
 
 
The central fact about deviance: It is created by society.
Nothing stays the same. Nothing is the same as anything else.
Howard S. Becker,
sociologist
1928-2023
 
 
 
 
When I have put all I can into it and it really breathes, I stop.
I paint because it’s my work. And I paint because I believe it’s the best way that I can pass my time as a human being.
Brice Marden,
artist
1938-2023
 
 
 
 
In terms of creativity, you don’t want to play it safe — it’s important to push the boundaries of the art form you’re dealing with.
Bernardine Evaristo,
writer
 
 
 
 
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion … the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
Dorothea Lange,
documentary photographer, photojournalist
 
 
 
 
Know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
Nora Roberts,
writer
 
 
 
 
I’ve never had such a sharp delineation in my mind between things that were made for adults and things that were made for children.
Greta Gerwig,
actor, director, screenwriter
 
 

Quotes May 22, 2023

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.
Dave Barry
 
 
 
 
The doctor gave me only three months to live. So I shot the doctor, and I got thirty years.
Bluebird of Bitterness
 
 
 
 
“Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.”
Jon Meacham
 
 
 
 
“What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.”
Horace
 
 
 
 
“My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.”
Barack Obama
 
 
 
 
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
Carl Jung
 
 
 
 
“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
Socrates
 
 
 
 
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Leo Tolstoy