Tag: Various

Quotes July 23, 2023

I felt the people’s energy. I felt that support and I wanted to pass it to Ukraine and to my people, so they can feel a little bit of boost of energy.
Elina Svitolina,
professional tennis player
 
 
 
 
I don’t owe my public anything except a good performance.
The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.
Humphrey Bogart,
actor
 
 
 
 
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
J.M. Barrie – 1860-1937 – Novelist-Playwright
 
 
 
 
The expert in anything was once a beginner.
Helen Hayes – 1900-1993 – American Actress
 
 
 
 
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher – 1813-1887 – American Minister
 
 
 
 
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillip Brooks – 1835-1893 – Clergyman-Author
 
 
 
 
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli – 1804-1881 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

 
 

Quotes July 17, 2023

“The Allen wrench is the egg to IKEA’s instant cake mix.”
Journalist Lauren Collins, in the New Yorker
 
 
 
 
“Call it socialism or whatever you like. It is the same to me.”
Former German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck while introducing social insurance legislation to the Reichstag in 1881
 
 
 
 
“The solution to everything is making the indoors more like the outdoors.”
Joey Fox, a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems (HVAC) engineer based in Canada, speaking to Quartz
 
 
 
 
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”
Wendell Berry, America’s farmer poet, extolling the holistic importance of understanding what’s in our soil
 
 
 
 
“These findings cast doubt on the hope that self-regulation would suffice to undertake a green transition. Firms seem very responsive to the public mood in words and programs. Better outcomes? Not yet!”
Luigi Zingales, finance professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, writing in a shareholder value study
 
 
 
 
“Someone might write an entire university dissertation on a specific part of the worlds created by Tolkien. Zelda lore isn’t quite on that level yet, but it does have depth.”
Ed King, a YouTuber (“Zeltik”) with 750,000 subscribers, exploring the mythology behind the Zelda franchise, in an interview with The New York Times
 
 
 
 
“If we think of body movement as a language, we are capable of Shakespeare, but most of us are using language like Dr. Seuss.”
Kelly Starrett, DPT, mobility expert
 
 
 
 
“We are being conditioned, as a population, to never wait, to never delay our gratification, to accept thoughtless, constant consumption as the new norm. But how we think about consumption and willpower carry enormous implications for the environment and the culture of society as a whole.”
Jenna Wortham in her 2017 article, “How Alexa Fits Into Amazon’s Prime Directive”
 
 

Quotes July 15, 2023

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Stan Smith – Professional Tennis Player
 
 
 
 
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen R. Covey – 1932-2012, Author and Speaker
 
 
 
 
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – 1841-1935 – Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
 
 
 
 
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Walt Disney
 
 
 
 
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
Babe Ruth
 
 
 
 
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.”
Virginia Woolf
 
 
 
 
“Swim upstream.”
Sam Walton
 
 
 
 
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
Vincent van Gogh
 
 
 
 
“Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it, and you’ll start believing in it.”
Jesse Owens
 
 
 
 
Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes July 08, 2023

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
 
 
 
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
George Sand
 
 
 
 
The Great Seal was an early proclamation of ‘humanitarian intervention’, to use the currently fashionable phrase.
Noam Chomsky
 
 
 
 
The only thing more challenging than pursuing the highest version of yourself is not pursuing the highest version of yourself.
Dan Koe – Freelance Creator
 
 
 
 
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Francis Bacon – 1561-1626 – Philosopher – Scientist – Author
 
 
 
 
A little progress each day adds up to big results.
Diana Martin – Author
 
 
 
 
Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.
Ricky Martin
 
 

Quotes July 06, 2023

There was no beginning and there is no end. We are all a part of that endless flow.
Alan Arkin,
actor
1934-2023
 
 
 
 
It’s about supplication and sacrifice and humility, when you go to these mountains.
Julian Sands,
actor
1958-2023
 
 
 
 
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.
Wayne Dyer – 1940-2015 – Author and Speaker
 
 
 
 
There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.
C.S. Lewis – 1898-1963 – Writer
 
 
 
 
Conventionality is not morality.
Charlotte Bronte,
writer
 
 
 
 
I encourage adopted people to tell their stories, our stories, and let no one else define these experiences for us.
Nicole Chung,
writer, editor
 
 
 
 
We are all here to be a service to those who can’t be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.
Dionne Warwick,
singer
 
 
 
 
Your thoughts are a steering wheel. Watch where you aim them.
Karen Salmansohn – Author
 
 

Quotes June 29, 2023

One thrives on enthusiasm, curiosity, humility, in that if one stays humble, you don’t have the baggage of expectation and entitlement.
Julian Sands,
actor
1958-2023
 
 
 
 
The things you find left behind in hotel room drawers! Good for a plot.
I don’t really have a passion for murder! … I keep the murder count down.
Carol Higgins Clark,
writer
1956-2023
 
 
 
 
There is a point of no return unremarked at the time in most lives.
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
Graham Greene,
writer
 
 
 
 
“We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.”
Jean Paul
 
 
 
 
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
“Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.”
Andrew Young
 
 
 
 
“To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.”
Coretta Scott King
 
 
 
 
“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion.”
Simone de Beauvoir
 
 
 
 
“In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.”
Anne Baxter
 
 
 
 
“Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.”
Matthew Desmond
 
 
 
 
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
Bruce Lee
 
 
 
 
“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
William James
 
 
 
 
“I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.”
Eartha Kitt
 
 
 
 
“Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.”
Zhuang Zhou
 
 
 
 
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
Indira Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”
Kahlil Gibran
 
 

Quotes June 27, 2023

So much held in heart in a life. So much held in heart in a day, an hour, a moment.
Brian Doyle
 
 
 
 
Any sensation we can feel will shift in some way with attuned understanding.
Sarah Peyton
 
 
 
 
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
Umberto Eco
 
 
 
 
These beings are dancing not with themselves but with the animate rondure of the Earth, their wider Flesh.
David Abram
 
 
 
 
Poems are words that take you through three kinds of doors: closed doors, secret doors, and doors you don’t know are there.
Stephanie Strickland
 
 
 
 
What you can plan is too small for you to live.
What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.
David Whyte
 
 
 
 
That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space…it is also within you.
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.
Richard Louv
 
 
 
 
Our thoughts could be starboard; why do we think like personnel? At what point do persons become personnel? They sure as pandemonium don’t start out that way.
Amy Leach
 
 
 
 
The earth is a living body. It has veins and blood. Damaging certain places is like cutting off a limb. It damages the whole body.
The Kogi People
 
 
 
 

The main thing was, I didn’t want to allow my fears to govern my life. I wanted to be led more by admiring, even hopefully by understanding, the world rather than by the anguishes of internal imaginings.
Jane Wodening

 
 

Quotes June 17-21, 2023

This is all that I’ve got, I don’t know what else I can give you.
It was a baptism by fire, but it was great.
Treat Williams,
actor
1951-2023
 
 
 
 
If you want to be a success, you need a couple years. You need to be bad. Then you need to be good.
When you’re good you need to fail, and then when you fail, you’re going to figure it out. I think experience is something that is not what happened to you, it’s what you’re going to do with what happened to you.
Nikola Jokic,
professional basketball player
 
 
 
 
Real dialogue is where two or more people become willing to suspend their certainty in each other’s presence.
David Bohm
 
 
 
 
“The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one’s flesh like radiant heat.”
John Muir
 
 
 
 
Love and gratitude can part seas, move mountains, and create miracles.
Rhonda Byrne – Author
 
 
 
 
The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.
Roy T. Bennett – 1939-2014 – Author
 
 
 
 

It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
Charlotte Bronte,
writer
 
 

Quotes June 15, 2023

What cultivating attention to detail introduces is spaciousness, space around thoughts and activities that allows you to live a rich and satisfying life right in the middle of misery.
Darlene Cohen
 
 
 
 
Partake in reality as an actor in a theatrical play: with attention, dedication and an open heart. But never believe yourself to be your character, for characters spend their lives chasing their own shadows, whereas actors embody the meaning of existence.
Bernardo Kastrup
 
 
 
 
It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.
Maria Tatar
 
 
 
 
I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift
Robin Wall Kimmerer
 
 
 
 
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Eugene Ionesco
 
 
 
 
I always ask, ‘Can you be the fertile ground for others to thrive?’ Because I stand on the shoulders of many women who looked right into my face and saw something that I wasn’t seeing.
Tererai Trent
 
 
 
 
We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Denis Waitley
 
 
 
 
To fully understand who I am and what I am capable of, I need to always see myself in terms of a community.
John Hunter
 
 
 
 
Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day — Mother Nature’s best effort yet at contra-death.
Matt Walker
 
 

Quotes June 13, 2023

Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry
Rupi Kaur,
poet, writer, illustrator
 
 
 
 
It’s all valid — everybody’s got their own path. I wouldn’t want to sit around and listen to me all day.
One person’s punk rock is another person’s singing ‘Om’ or playing harp.
George Winston,
pianist, composer
1949-2023
 
 
 
 
I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.
Oprah Winfrey – Actress – Talk Show Host – Producer – Philanthropist
 
 
 
 
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
Joseph Conrad – 1857-1924 – Author
 
 
 
 
“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
Vincent Van Gogh
 
 
 
 
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
Aesop
 
 
 
 
“I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
Stephen Grellet