Tag: Various

Quotes October 16, 2022

People pay to see others believe in themselves.
I’ve always felt uncomfortable giving people what they want or expect.
Kim Gordon,
musician, singer, songwriter
 
 
 
 
There are times in your life you think: This could be it. This could be it.
Angela Lansbury,
actor, singer
1925-2022
 
 
 
 
Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.
Susan Cheever
 
 
 
 
We are all here for a single purpose: to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better.
Rachel Naomi Remen
 
 
 
 
People who are ill–mentally ill or physically ill–they’re not abnormal. These are normal responses to abnormal circumstances.
Gabor Mate
 
 
 
 
As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.
James Hollis
 
 
 
 
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Pablo Casals
 
 
 
 
I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may never complete this last one,
but I give myself to it.
Rainer Maria Rilke, translation Joanna Macy, Anita Barrows

Quotes October 10, 2022

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Corra Harris – 1869-1935 – Writer-Journalist
 
 
 
 
To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.
Gretel Ehrlich
 
 
 
 
You will always have the time for the things you choose to put first in your life.
Brad Turnbull – Author
 
 
 
 
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”
Isaac Newton
 
 
 
 
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
Orson Welles
 
 
 
 
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton
 
 
 
 
What if the catalyst or the key to understanding creation lay somewhere in the immense mind of the whale?
Cormac McCarthy
 
 
 
 
After all, the purpose of learning isn’t to affirm our beliefs; it’s to evolve our beliefs.
Adam Grant
 
 
 
 

Exterior beauty, without the depth of a kind soul is merely decoration.
The Minds Journal
 
 
 
 

If you’re pretty, you’re pretty; but the only way to be beautiful is to be loving. Otherwise, it’s just “congratulations about your face.”
John Mayer

 
 
 
 

Quotes October 08, 2022

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
Conrad Hilton – 1887-1979 – Hotelier
 
 
 
 
It doesn’t have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.
Elmore Leonard
 
 
 
 
The tiniest thing today you do, in some crazy, unfathomable way, matters. Every word that comes out of your mouth, every thought you have in your head matters.
Sandy Gallagher – President, CEO and Co-Founder, Proctor Gallagher Institute
 
 
 
 
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu
 
 
 
 
“I think you’re very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.”
Andrew Lloyd Webber, musical composer of “Cats”
 
 
 
 
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Marie Curie

Quotes October 06, 2022

I didn’t sing anything that was wrong. I just told the truth.
Loretta Lynn,
singer, songwriter
1932-2022
 
 
 
 
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost – 1874-1963 – Poet
 
 
 
 
“You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”
Timothy Leary
 
 
 
 
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller – 1926-2015 – Televangelist
 
 
 
 
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Helen Hayes – 1900-1993 – Actress
 
 
 
 
Enthusiasm moves the world.
Arthur Balfour – 1848-1930 – Former British Prime Minister
 
 
 
 
“You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.”
Bette Davis
 
 
 
 
“Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.”
Hesiod
 
 
 
 
“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”
Benjamin Franklin
 
 
 
 
“After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.”
Gwen Stefani
 
 
 
 
“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”
Janis Joplin
 
 
 
 
It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at all if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow.
Hilary Mantel,
writer
1952-2022
 
 
 
 
If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat.
Muriel Spark,
writer, poet
 
 
 
 
Don’t write our stories for us. Let us write our own stories.
I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life … and that’s what I’ve done.
Sacheen Littlefeather,
actor, activist
1946-2022
 
 
 
 
The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.
Hilary Mantel
 
 
 
 
We are, each of us, a little universe.
Neil deGrasse Tyson,
astrophysicist, science communicator, writer
 
 
 
 
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
Elmore Leonard,
writer
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”
Steve Jobs
 
 
 
 
“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”
Dante Alighieri
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 27, 2022

“Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Tony Robbins – Author-Speaker
 
 
 
 
“The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration, then more practice and more concentration.”
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
 
 
 
 
You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Arthur Ashe,
professional tennis player
 
 
 
 
I am not the best. I don’t have to be. I am enough.
Luvvie Ajayi Jones,
writer
 
 
 
 
We have to understand that we are all born with a voice.
Jessye Norman,
opera singer
 
 
 
 
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
Thomas Pynchon,
writer
 
 
 
 
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
Anton Chekhov
 
 
 
 
Do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard,
philosopher, theologian, poet, writer

Quotes September 19, 2022

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
Alan Lakein – Author
 
 
 
 
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
Edmund Hillary – 1919-2008 – Mountaineer
 
 
 
 
I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
Anton Chekhov,
writer, playwright
 
 
 
 
“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”
Cicero
 
 
 
 
“Being young isn’t about age; it’s about being a free spirit.”
Lesley “Twiggy” Lawson
 
 
 
 
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices.
Katherine Mansfield
 
 
 
 
I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.
Nick Hornby

 
 
 
 

Quotes September 17, 2022

What do you pack when you pursue a dream? And what do you leave behind?
Sandra Sharp – Author
 
 
 
 
“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself … that’s where it’s at.”
Jesse Owens
 
 
 
 
“I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.”
Ann Richards
 
 
 
 
“Everything has to be earned, through work, persistence, and honesty.”
Princess Grace Kelly
 
 
 
 
“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”
Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
BB King
 
 
 
 
“There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”
Harriet Tubman

Quotes September 15, 2022

The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.
Marianne Williamson – Author-Speaker
 
 
 
 
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
Gustave Flaubert
 
 
 
 
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Desiderius Erasmus – 1466-1536 – Theologian
 
 
 
 
Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.
Nelson Mandela – 1918-2013 – Former President of South Africa
 
 
 
 
“Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.”
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
 
 
 
 
“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
Ella Fitzgerald,
singer
 
 
 
 
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
Queen Elizabeth II
 
 
 
 
Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.
So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
Clarice Lispector, December 10, 1920 – December 9, 1977, writer

 
 
 
 

Quotes September 10, 2022

I know perfect doesn’t exist, but whatever my perfect was, I never wanted to stop until I got it right.
Serena Williams
 
 
 
 
“Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.”
Queen Elizabeth II
 
 
 
 
It’s a new day, with a fresh start, new thoughts and unique possibilities.
Sandy Gallagher – President, CEO and Co-Founder, Proctor Gallagher Institute
 
 
 
 
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
Rumi
 
 
 
 
“No matter how tough the chase is, you should always have the dream you saw on the first day. It’ll keep you motivated and rescue you from any weak thoughts.”
Jack Ma
 
 
 
 
It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw – Journalist and Author
 
 
 
 

Quotes September 08, 2022

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
 
 
 
 
Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.
Arianna Huffington – Author of The Huffington Post
 
 
 
 
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
Arnold Palmer – 1929-2016 – Professional Golfer
 
 
 
 
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Roger Ebert – 1942-2013 – Film Critic
 
 
 
 
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
Jane Austen
 
 
 
 
“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
Plato
 
 
 
 
The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.
Ben Hogan,
professional golfer
 
 
 
 
Maybe the best word to describe what I’m up to is evolution.
Serena Williams,
professional tennis player
 
 
 
 
If you have only one of something you can’t say it’s the best of anything.
Harold Pinter,
playwright, screenwriter, director, actor, Nobel Prize winner
 
 
 
 
“Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.”
Jane Addams
 
 
 
 
“Self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.”
Gloria Gaynor
 
 
 
 
“When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength, and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you.”
Ruby Bridges