Tag: Various

Quotes July 23, 2022

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
The notion of my future suddenly snapped into focus: it didn’t exist yet.
Ottessa Moshfegh
 
 
 
 
With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey – 1887-1940 – Activist-Publisher-Journalist-Entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
If we all did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison – 1847-1931 – Inventor
 
 
 
 
“Three secrets to success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people.”
Sally Ride
 
 
 
 
A satisfied life is better than a successful life. Success is measured by others, but our satisfaction is measured by our own soul, mind and heart. Do not live your life to impress others, live your life for you. Be at peace with yourself and be a stronger person.
Tyler Eddy
 
 
 
 

“It’s very important in life to know when to shut up.”
Alex Trebek

Quotes July 21, 2022

People truly engaged in life have messy houses.
Ottessa Moshfegh,
writer
 
 
 
 
If things can change for the worse, the opposite is also true. But only if you open yourself to the possibilities.
Ruth Reichl,
chef, food writer, editor
 
 
 
 
My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
If you’re not nervous, you’re not paying attention.
Miles Davis,
jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer
 
 
 
 
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
Frederick Douglass
 
 
 
 
It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
John Wooden – 1910-2010 – American Basketball Coach
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.”
Robin Williams
 
 
 
 
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
Rick Riordan – Author
 
 
 
 
“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.”
Thomas Paine
 
 
 
 
“Our life’s journey is really about the people who touch us.”
Stuart Scott
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
Unknown

Quotes July 17 & 18, 2022

“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
Courage of the heart is very rare. Let it guide you.
Sarah J. Maas – Author
 
 
 
 
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
Neil Armstrong – 1930-2012 – Astronaut-Aeronautical Engineer-First Person to Walk on the Moon
 
 
 
 
“Nothing is worth more than laughter.”
Frida Kahlo
 
 
 
 
“Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.”
JD Salinger, from “The Catcher in the Rye”
 
 
 
 
“I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.”
Gianni Versace
 
 
 
 
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
“There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.”
Gertrude Bell
 
 
 
 
Stars can’t shine without darkness.
Unknown

Quotes July 12, 2022

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
Elbert Hubbard
 
 
 
 
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
H.P. Lovecraft
 
 
 
 
“The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.”
Lady Bird Johnson
 
 
 
 
“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
Malala Yousafzai
 
 
 
 
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy – 1917-1945 – Politician-35th President of the United States
 
 
 
 
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
Eckhart Tolle – Spiritual Teacher-Author
 
 
 
 
It is always darkness before delight!
Delmore Schwartz,
poet
 
 
 
 
My least favorite phrase in the English language is ‘I don’t care.’
James Caan,
actor
1940-2022
 
 
 
 
“It’s all about sharing them with people and having a laugh in this cruel, awful world we live in.”
Carl Baldwin, co-author of Black Velvet Masterpieces and curator of the ​​Velveteria museum
 
 
 
 
“May we train up a Race of Heros who shall defend the Rights of Society against the Encroachments of Every despotic power that shall in future attempt to curtail them.”
Mercy Otis Warren
 
 
 
 
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T.S. Eliot
 
 
 
 
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden
 
 
 
 
Time is the most valuable thing you have — and I’m not just talking about the minutes for which you’re paid.
Eli Broad,
entrepreneur, businessman, philanthropist

Quotes July 10, 2022

“All the things
that truly matter,
beauty,
love,
creativity,
joy and
inner peace
arise from
beyond the mind.”
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.
Andy Rooney – 1919-2011 – Radio, Television Writer
 
 
 
 
The Beginning of the End can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.
Karen Russell,
writer
 
 
 
 
Go on, say what you want. … Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free.
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,
writer, screenwriter
 
 
 
 
In improvisation, the generation of material is spontaneous, but it’s never random.
Natalie Hodges
 
 
 
 
Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use.
Carlos Castaneda
 
 
 
 
There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
Wendell Berry
 
 
 
 
To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.
Tia Walker
 
 

Quotes July 02, 2022

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky – 1868-1936- Writer-Nobel Prize Nominee
 
 
 
 
“Giving is the master key to success, in all applications of life.”
Bryant McGill
 
 
 
 
“At the end it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished. It’s about who you have lifted up, who you have made better. It’s all about what you give back.”
Denzel Washington
 
 
 
 
“The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.”
Thurgood Marshall
 
 
 
 
But the beauty is in the walking – we are betrayed by destinations.
Gwyn Thomas
 
 
 
 
The model we choose to use to understand something determines what we find.
Iain McGilchrist
 
 
 
 
We must become accountable to our time, our earth, our species, our people, and our loved ones, from the inside out.
Adrienne Maree Brown
 
 
 
 
See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Ray Bradbury

 
 
 
 

Quotes June 30, 2022

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
John Quincy Adams – 1767-1848 – Former President of the United States
 
 
 
 
It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
Paulo Coelho – Author
 
 
 
 
It is sweet, sometimes, to hear cliches after long days of trying to say something new.
Patricia Lockwood,
poet, writer
 
 
 
 
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.
William Feather – 1889-1981 – Publisher-Author
 
 
 
 
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get—only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything.”
Katharine Hepburn
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe, from “Oldtown Folks”
 
 
 
 
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
 
 
 
“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”
Thomas Hardy
 
 
 
 
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
Voltaire,
writer, public activist, philosopher
 
 
 
 
In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
Edna O’Brien

Quotes June 23, 2022

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus – 50 AD-135 AD – Greek Stoic Philosopher
 
 
 
 
“Common sense is not so common.”
Voltaire
 
 
 
 
“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.”
Groucho Marx
 
 
 
 
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha – Philosopher
 
 
 
 
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles F. Kettering – 1876-1958 – Inventor-Engineer
 
 
 
 
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
Frida Kahlo
 
 
 
 
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
Judy Garland
 
 
 
 
There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.
Octavia E. Butler,
writer
 
 
 
 
“I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.”
Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.”
Jonas Salk
 
 
 
 
We have a choice. … To Live or To Exist.
Harry Styles,
singer, songwriter, actor
 
 
 
 
Faith by its definition is belief in the outcome of something which you’re not sure is ever going to be achieved.
Urvashi Vaid,
activist, lawyer, writer
June is Pride Month

Quotes June 20, 2022

“Music is God’s voice.”
Brian Wilson
 
 
 
 
In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.
Buddha – Philosopher
 
 
 
 
It is incredibly empowering to know that your future is in your hands.
Keanu Reeves – Actor
 
 
 
 
If we’re not paying attention through our own senses, we have disengaged from the primary mode in which every creature since the origin of life has connected to its environment.
David George Haskell
 
 
 
 
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all.
Wendell Berry
 
 
 
 
Joy is an act of rebellion. And so is allowing ourselves to feel our grief.
Octavia Raheem
 
 
 
 
I learned, a long time ago, about a particular saying from the continent I grew up on: “the times are urgent; let us slow down.”
Bayo Akomolafe
 
 
 
 
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
German Proverb
 
 
 
 
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
Fred Rogers
 
 
 
 
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
Jane Goodall

Quotes June 18, 2022

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
Dalai Lama – Spiritual Leader
 
 
 
 
You cannot change your future. But you can change your habits. And surely your habits will change your future.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam – 1931-2015 – Former President of India
 
 
 
 
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
“You have to train your mind as much as your body.”
Venus Williams
 
 
 
 
“We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our mind.”
Roger Ebert
 
 
 
 
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices.
Katherine Mansfield
 
 
 
 
There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
Khalil Gibran
 
 
 
 
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Vincent van Gogh