Tag: Thoughts

Quotes February 09-12, 2023

I wanted to place clothing in harmony with the times.
To have created the first dresses in metal, paper, molded plastic — that is my legacy.
Paco Rabanne,
fashion designer
1934-2023
 
 
 
 
Art is a profession, not a shrine.
When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.
Elizabeth Hardwick,
literary critic, writer
 
 
 
 
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
Edith Wharton
 
 
 
 
I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.
Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything.
Sally Rooney,
writer, screenwriter
 
 
 
 
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey – Actress-Entrepreneur-Talk Show Host-Media Executive-Philanthropist
 
 
 
 
How people treat you is their karma, how you react is yours.
Wayne W. Dyer – 1940-2015 – Author
 
 
 
 
“Society is unity in diversity.”
George Herbert Mead
 
 
 
 
“I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant.”
Edward Enninful
 
 
 
 
Cynicism is easy: it is simply judgement and fear. Choose curiosity instead.
Cyndie Spiegel – Speaker-Facilitator-Author
 
 
 
 
Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.
Robert Schuller – 1926-2015 – Pastor-Speaker-Author
 
 
 
 
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
Elie Wiesel
 
 
 
 
This may only be a dream of mine, but I think it can be made real.
Ella Baker
 
 
 
 
Show up in the world in a way that makes you proud. Speak words that you wouldn’t be ashamed to hear repeated back to you.
Delete everything in your mind that is not moving you forward.
Unknown

Quotes November 10, 2022

Some of the most generous people have no money. Some of the wisest people have no education. Some of the kindest people have been hurt the most.
Steve Wentworth – Writer-Podcaster-Spiritual Teacher
 
 
 
 
Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.
Tony Kushner,
writer, playwright, screenwriter
 
 
 
 
“If you show people the problems, and you show people the solutions, they will be moved to act.”
Bill Gates
 
 
 
 
“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
Carlos Castaneda
 
 
 
 
“This will remain the land of the free so long as it is the home of the brave.”
Elmer Davis
 
 
 
 
Use your smile to change the world, don’t let the world change your smile.
Unknown

Quotes September 26, 2022

Things that we love tell us what we are.
Thomas Aquinas – 1225-1274 – Priest
 
 
 
 
The notion of my future suddenly snapped into focus: it didn’t exist yet.
Ottessa Moshfegh
 
 
 
 
Omissions are not accidents.
Marianne Moore
 
 
 
 
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is.
Frederick Buechner,
writer, poet, preacher, theologian
1926-2022
 
 
 
 
The stars we are given. The constellations we make.
Rebecca Solnit,
writer, activist
 
 
 
 
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
“The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
Carl Jung
 
 
 
 
“The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.”
Queen Elizabeth II
 
 
 
 
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
Voltaire
 
 
 
 
“The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.”
William Lyon Phelps
 
 
 
 
“Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.”
Campbell Brown

Quotes September 18, 2022

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Will Rogers
 
 
 
 
A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted.
Robert Reich
 
 
 
 
“The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.”
Ludwig bin Mises
 
 
 
 
There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O’Connor
 
 
 
 
“You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.”
Anne Frank
 
 
 
 
“Not flesh of my flesh, nor bone of my bone, But still miraculously my own. Never forget for a single minute, you didn’t grow under my heart but in it.”
Fleur Conkling Heyliger.
 
 
 
 
A photograph is the pause button of life.
Sayings
 
 
 
 
Efforts at family reunification or family preservation should be highly focused, highly concentrated, and delivered at high speed.
If they fail, the child should have an opportunity to be raised by an actual family, as opposed to a biological one.
Andrew Vachss

Quotes September 13, 2022

I am always doing great and mentally giving energy to feeling better. Better is a nice word, we can always feel better.
Bob Proctor – 1934-2022 – Author-Speaker-Legend
 
 
 
 
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda – 1887-1963 – Author
 
 
 
 
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Alexander the Great – 356BC-323BC – King
 
 
 
 
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
Find your place on the planet, dig in, and take responsibility from there.
Gary Snyder,
poet, essayist, lecturer, environmental activist
 
 
 
 
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat. Instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
Elizabeth II, queen of the UK and 14 other Commonwealth realms
1926-2022

Quotes September 04, 2022

Tools of empowerment, heartset and mindset.
Akosua Dardaine Edwards – Entrepreneur-Author-Women & Youth Support
 
 
 
 
“Feelings of resentment are fertile seeds that breed invasive weeds and intrude on the smooth sailing of communities.”
Saba Bazzi
 
 
 
 
I also had a physiatrist once tell me that after your kids are 18 years old, our job is to let them learn and fail and love them no matter what and even if. Sometimes that is very hard.
Amy, My Recipe Treasures
 
 
 
 
“Would you rather be happy or would you rather be right”?
Lynn A. Robinson
 
 
 
 
“Social media floods us with a constant bombardment of shallow rewards.”
Seema Yasmin
 
 
 
 
“If someone I love is stuck in the quicksand, there is no way that I can help them if I jump in with them”.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“True freedom is giving someone permission to misunderstand you”.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“If you don’t make peace with your past, it will keep showing up in your future”.
Unknown

Quotes May 03, 2022

“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
Albert Camus
 
 
 
 
How precious words are and how real speech is
in its impact on the way people live and die.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change world.
Nelson Mandela – 1918-2013 – President of South Africa 1994-1999-Humanitarian-Social Activist
 
 
 
 
“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
Margaret Mitchell
 
 
 
 
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake,
poet, painter
 
 
 
 
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.
Margaret Atwood,
writer, poet
 
 
 
 
If we are to work together more intelligently, we will need to choose processes that evoke our curiosity, humility, generosity and wisdom.
Margaret Wheatley
 
 
 
 
There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.
Alan Watts
 
 
 
 
Even if it’s a yucky day, you can get a hug.
Clark Todebush
 
 
 
 
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
 
 
 
 
The inner life of a Black child, I think, is one of the most sacred places on Earth.
Major Jackson
 
 
 
 
All is connected… no one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken

Quotes February 24, 2022

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
John Cage – 1912-1992 – Composer
 
 
 
 
We are the accumulation of the dreams of generations
Stephen Robert Kuta
 
 
 
 
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Marcus Antonius
 
 
 
 
Make each day your masterpiece.
John Wooden
 
 
 
 
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves –slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
In life and art it’s better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.
Robert Genn
 
 
 
 
To call what happens ‘the placebo effect’ is just to give a name to something we don’t understand
Jon Kabat-Zinn
 
 
 
 
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
 
 
 
 
Sometimes carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
Albert Camus

Quotes February 12, 2022

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt – 1884-1962 – Former First Lady of the United States
 
 
 
 
You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct, and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
Napoleon Hill – 1883-1970 -Author
 
 
 
 
“It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
Douglas Adams
 
 
 
 
Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
Jesse Owens,
track and field athlete, four-time Olympic gold medalist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
Carrie Fisher
 
 
 
 
“Understanding and believing are not the same thing.”
Gertrude Stein
 
 
 
 
“Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.”
Michael Jordan
 
 
 
 
“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.”
Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities”
 
 
 
 
“Gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.”
James Dean
 
 
 
 
“Don’t forget to tell your favorite people that you love them.”
Shirley Temple
 
 
 
 
“People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.”
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
“How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.”
Judy Blume, “Tiger Eyes”
 
 
 
 
“It is a little dark still, but there are warnings of the day and somewhere out of the darkness, a bird is singing to the Dawn.”
Excerpt from Representative American Negroes, an essay by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Quotes February 01, 2022

“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
Betty Friedan
 
 
 
 
Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.
Christian Dior – 1905-1957 – French Fashion Designer
 
 
 
 
When you look at the past through a fresh lens, you invariably see the world differently and find new material and insights even along well-trodden paths.
There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.
Erik Larson,
journalist, writer
 
 
 
 
“Life is a magical thing.”
Laurel Clark, astronaut and medical doctor aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia
 
 
 
 
“I touch the future. I teach.”
Christa McAuliffe, teacher and astronaut killed during Challenger explosion.
 
 
 
 
“Be silent, if you choose, but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”
Mozart
 
 
 
 
“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things—to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.”
Sir Edmund Hillary
 
 
 
 
“Heroes always have their scars. Some you see, some you read about later on.”
George Foreman
 
 
 
 
“One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
Nikola Tesla