Tag: Various

Quotes September 14, 2024

Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges.
Bryant McGill – Author
 
 
 
 
The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.
Marianne Williamson – Author-Speaker
 
 
 
 
“I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.”
Ann Richards
 
 
 
 
“Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what’s given to you on a plate.”
Amy Winehouse
 
 
 
 
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 04, 2024

September tries its best to have us forget summer.
Bernard Williams,
philosopher
 
 
 
 
“While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.”
LEO TOLSTOY, WAR AND PEACE
 
 
 
 
Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking.
Antonio Machado
 
 
 
 
Where in your life does love flourish? Where in your life is light allowed to flood in?
Warmly,
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 
 
 
Become the kind of person whom nobody fears.
Arun Bhatt
 
 
 
 
Don’t give up, the beginning is always the hardest.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 02, 2024

I hinted to my husband that for my birthday I’d like something new and shiny that can go from zero to 200 in five seconds. He bought me a bathroom scale.
Bluebird of Bitterness
 
 
 
 
The end-of-summer winds make people restless.
Sebastian Faulks,
writer, journalist
 
 
 
 
A leader is a person who has people following them, because they want to.
Larry Wilson – 1938-2020 – American Professional Football Player
 
 
 
 
My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
Sebastian Faulks
 
 
 
 
“In order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out. There are going to be times in your life when you’re going to have to stick your neck out. There will be challenges. And instead of hiding in a shell, you have to go out and meet them.”
RUTH WESTHEIMER
 
 
 
 
“This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places.”
EDWARD ABBEY
 
 
 
 
“Your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.”
TONI MORRISON
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 21, 2024

The chief cause of failure is substituting what you want most for what you want now.
Zig Ziglar – 1926-2012 – Author-Salesman
 
 
 
 
“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
 
 
 
 
“Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you’re going to perform, you’ve already lost.”
Usain Bolt
 
 
 
 
“Beauty is in the mind, not the mirror.”
FRÉDÉRIC FEKKAI
 
 
 
 
“Don’t let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime.”
MICHELLE YEOH
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 20, 2024

No one is ready for a thing until they believe that they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish.
Napoleon Hill – 1883-1970 -Author
 
 
 
 
Everything I did in films, I truly lived.
Alain Delon,
actor
1935-2024
 
 
 
 
“When you’re climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.”
Jacqueline Susann, from “Valley of the Dolls”
 
 
 
 
“You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.”
HILLARY DEPIANO, NEW YEAR’S THIEVE
 
 
 
 
“If it makes you happy, soothes your soul, grows your garden — choose that.”
MAIA
 
 
 
 
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
LANGSTON HUGHES
 
 
 
 
“We have to make mistakes. It’s how we learn compassion for others.”
CURTIS SITTENFELD, AMERICAN WIFE
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 18-19, 2024

If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.
Gena Rowlands,
actor
1930-2024
 
 
 
 
The life in front of you is far more important than the life behind you.
Joel Osteen – Pastor-Televangelist-Author
 
 
 
 
“I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.”
Walt Disney
 
 
 
 
“Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don’t anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you’re always trying for a topper you aren’t really listening.”
Groucho Marx
 
 
 
 
“We are all worthy of being seen.”
“Don’t be afraid to speak up because you never know who is listening.”
​AMERICA FERRERA
 
 
 
 
“Don’t postpone loving yourself.”
AGAPI STASSINOPOULOS
 
 
 
 
“A stranger’s compassion can make a world of difference.”
​OPRAH WINFREY
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 15, 2024

I read the greens in Spanish, but I putt in English.
Chi Chi Rodriguez,
professional golfer
1935-2024
 
 
 
 
Your current circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Nido Qubein – Businessman-Speaker
 
 
 
 
Listen to the people who are talking about how to fix what’s wrong, not the ones who just work people into a snit over the problems. Listen to the people who have ideas about how to fix things, not the ones who just blame others.
Molly Ivins
(1944-2007)
 
 
 
 
Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.
Dave Willis
 
 
 
 
“Do not ignore your intuition. There is an infinite intelligence within you; let it be your guiding light.”
CLEO WADE
​ 
 
 
 
“If you always put a limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
Bruce Lee
 
 
 
 
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
Harper Lee,
writer
 
 
 
 
We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James,
writer
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 06-07, 2024

I don’t even see when I’m doing my gymnastics. It’s all in the hands. I can feel everything.
I worked my whole life up to those 45 seconds.
Stephen Nedoroscik,
gymnast, Olympic medalist
 
 
 
 
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – 1756-1791 – Prolific, Influential Compost of the Classical Period
 
 
 
 
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
Edward Everett Hale – 1822-1909-Author-Historian
 
 
 
 
When you let go of what you think you need, you clear space for the Universe to bring you what you really want.
Gabby Bernstein – Author-Motivational Speaker-Spiritual Leader-Podcast Host
 
 
 
 
Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.
Markus Zusak,
writer
 
 
 
 
Know that listening is your secret weapon.
Sarah Jessica Parker,
actor, producer, businessperson
 
 
 
 
Give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 04, 2024

When you understand giving, when you understand receiving, you understand that it is all self-organizing. You just have to dance, and in some moments you’re asked to give and in some moments you are asked to receive, but your ultimate prerogative is to just dance.
Nipun Mehta
 
 
 
 
The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further.
Joanna Macy
 
 
 
 
There is a kind of insubstantiality to clouds, and a softness, a yielding…. In a way, everything is a cloud.
Rick Hanson
 
 
 
 
Spiritual literacy is recognizing the sacred in everything around us. Everything around you and everything you do has spiritual significance. The point is that it’s all around us. You just have to have the eyes to see.
Mary Ann Brussat
 
 
 
 
A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.
Zen Shin
 
 
 
 
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Quotes July 31, 2024

“Self-care is soothing nourishment for your mind, heart, and body. It should feel accessible and comforting, like melted peanut butter on toasted bread.”
TON MAK
 
 
 
 
“One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy, and one of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.”
GRETCHEN RUBIN
 
 
 
 
Be grateful for what you have and be ready to share it when the time comes.
Michelle Obama – Former First Lady of the United States-Author-Attorney
 
 
 
 
The details, that’s what the world is made of.
Wes Anderson,
filmmaker
 
 
 
 
When you find your heroes as a kid, they stay with you forever.
Maya Rudolph,
actor, comedian
 
 
 
 
“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
Christopher Reeve
 
 
 
 
We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life’s continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.
Stephen Jay Gould