Tag: Various

Quotes July 01, 2026

The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.
B.B. King

When we focus on the simple joys that arise every day — we stop the endless search for more, and we find there is enough.
Remember to nurture yourself today with something that brings you joy — a song, a walk, the simplicity of silence. You are loved.
Somewhere in adulthood, many of us forget the essential art of imagination. But our inner child still remembers how to linger, to wonder, to sit quietly with a thought and let it unfold into a world.
AmyAnn Cadwell

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Kahlil Gibran

Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things are.
Marianne Williamson

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
Carlos Santana

Everyone has the capacity for joy. Joy is available to all of us.
Ross Gay

We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell

Cling to joy: audacious and unbridled joy, that looks for light in everything, even in your waiting.
Morgan Harper Nichols

There’s no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Motivational speaker and business coach Tony Robbins

Quotes October 18, 2025

I don’t think coincidences happen in this life — I think things happen for a reason. We have a choice to listen or not.
Jane Goodall,
primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist
1934-2025
 
 
 
 
I’ve never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I’ve never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.
There have been times between action and cut when I’ve sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven’t been familiar with before.
Terence Stamp,
actor
1938-2025
 
 
 
 
I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.
Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.
Greg Iles,
writer
1960-2025
 
 
 
 
Stories become legends. And legends become … whatever they become.
Graham Greene,
actor
1952-2025
 
 
 
 
I’m interested in that thing that happens where there’s a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there’s no sign that it’s going to get any better, and that’s the point when people quit. But some don’t.
Robert Redford,
actor, director, producer
1936-2025
 
 
 
 
What has stayed the same is my desire to express myself. Because in this rapidly changing world, you can be influenced, dragged in one direction or another, and lose your own identity.
Giorgio Armani,
fashion designer
1934-2025
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 17, 2025

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
Napoleon Hill
 
 
 
 
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
 
 
 
 
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
 
 
 
 
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine
Anthony J. D’Angelo
 
 
 
 
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
Robert E. Lee
 
 
 
 
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children.
Princess Diana
 
 
 
 
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 27, 2025

You’ve got to try and take things to the next level, or you’ll just get stuck in a rut.
Ozzy Osbourne,
singer, songwriter, media personality
1948-2025
 
 
 
 
Obviously, we all look at things through the filter of our own experiences.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner,
actor, artist
1970-2025
 
 
 
 
“Maybe that’s the best part of going away for a vacation — coming home again.”
MADELEINE L’ENGLE
 
 
 
 
“Every morning, the rising sun invites and inspires us to begin again.”
​DEBASISH MRIDHA
 
 
 
 
“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
 
 
 
 
“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time.”
Sandra Day O’Connor
 
 
 
 
“I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you’ve got to go out and do it. Don’t be shy, be adventurous.”
Dame Helen Mirren
 
 
 
 
“Life’s a roller coaster you don’t always get to choose the seat you’re in, but you can choose to throw your hands up and enjoy the ride.”
Anonymous
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 22, 2025

There were exhilarating highs and abysmal lows. But it was fighting to get out of those lows that I feel most proud of.
Connie Francis,
singer, actor
1937-2025
 
 
 
 
“There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.”
Robin Williams
 
 
 
 
“In football, as in life, the hits you don’t see coming are the ones that do the most damage.”
Stuart Scott, from “Everyday I Fight”
 
 
 
 
Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.
Dying is the opposite of leaving. … I am more here than I ever was before.
Andrea Gibson,
poet, activist
1975-2025
 
 
 
 
“The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.”
Alex Trebek
 
 
 
 
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
Vladimir Nabokov,
writer
 
 
 
 
On my way to climb Mt. Everest, I came upon a local villager who said he had a rooster that laid eggs.
“How is that possible?” I asked.
He replied, “Himalayan rooster.”
 
 
 
 
The rise of Comic-Con and fandom is “the story of how the geek at last inherited the earth.”
Common attendee sentiment
 
 
 
 
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 14, 2025

“Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.”
Howard Hughes
 
 
 
 
“Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment.”
GARY CHAPMAN
 
 
 
 
“The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, LITTLE WOMEN
 
 
 
 
“As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.”
MARGARET DELAND
 
 
 
 
“You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.”
DAVID VISCOTT
 
 
 
 
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”
WILLA CATHER
 
 
 
 
“The optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.”
CHRISTIAN D. LARSON
 
 
 
 
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”
MARTHA NUSSBAUM
 
 
 
 
“In a world that can often feel unstable and uncertain, our relationships — romantic, platonic, communal — become the anchors that ground us.”
ESTHER PEREL
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 13, 2025

“The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.”
Vanessa Williams
 
 
 
 
“All that we don’t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.”
Philip Roth
 
 
 
 
“The air is the only place free from prejudice.”
Bessie Coleman
 
 
 
 
“Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.”
Margaret Mitchell, from “Gone with the Wind”
 
 
 
 
“You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.”
Joe Louis
 
 
 
 
“The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.”
Phillis Wheatley
 
 
 
 
“Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don’t be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.”
Shirley Temple Black
 
 
 
 
“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”
Jackie Robinson
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 30, 2025

Maybe that’s what life is … a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Jack Kerouac,
poet, writer
 
 
 
 
“To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.”
Chief Justice John Marshall
 
 
 
 
“Don’t be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it’s just death.”
Lena Horne
 
 
 
 
“Blockchain is the tech. Bitcoin is merely the first mainstream manifestation of its potential.”
Crypto leader Marc Kenigsberg
 
 
 
 
“Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don’t understand commitment.”
Pat Summitt
 
 
 
 
“It isn’t up to the painter to define the symbols. The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.”
Pablo Picasso
 
 
 
 
“You have to train your mind as much as your body.”
Venus Williams
 
 
 
 
“If you win through bad sportsmanship, that’s no real victory.”
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
 
 
 
 
“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.”
Anthony Bourdain
 
 
 
 
“If there’s not love present, it’s much, much harder to function. When there’s love present, it’s easier to deal with life.”
Brian Wilson
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 28, 2025

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
Coretta Scott King,
writer, civil rights activist and leader
 
 
 
 
You see, but you do not observe.
Arthur Conan Doyle
 
 
 
 
I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
James Taylor,
singer, songwriter, guitarist
 
 
 
 
In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Corrie ten Boom,
writer, watchmaker
 
 
 
 
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
writer
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 17, 2025

I wake up in the morning and I say ‘Ahh! Today’s the day for a song! I’m going to write a song today!’ And I do. I write a song.
Brian Wilson,
singer, songwriter, musician, producer
1942-2025
 
 
 
 
“The journey of the perfect daughter is not about perfection; it’s about finding the courage to be imperfect, to be human.”
Robert Ackerman, Perfect Daughters
 
 
 
 
You see, but you do not observe.
When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
Arthur Conan Doyle,
writer, physician
 
 
 
 
“When we listen to our body with kindness, we honor the present moment and give ourselves the care we truly need.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
“Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.”
Brené Brown
 
 
 
 
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate, and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
Octavia Spencer,
actress, writer
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes, the hardest person to trust is ourselves. But when we do, everything changes.”
Unknown