Tag: Various

Quotes June 11, 2022

“We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.”
Jeannette Rankin
 
 
 
 
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
Queen Galadriel – Character
 
 
 
 
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
 
 
 
 
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
Judy Garland
 
 
 
 
Things are always less important once you’re assured of having them.
Mary Gaitskill
 
 
 
 
Thing long term. Execute short term. Experience now.
Unknown

Quotes June 09, 2022

“A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.”
James Freeman Clarke
 
 
 
 
We didn’t start the sexual revolution, but I think we gave it a good kick in the pants!
Christine Jorgensen,
actor, singer, first transgender woman to have gender-confirmation surgery
June is Pride Month
 
 
 
 
The more honest I am, the freer I am.
Jerrod Carmichael,
comedian, actor, filmmaker
 
 
 
 
It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.
Isamu Noguchi
 
 
 
 
One has to realize one’s limitations. Why kid yourself?
I.M. Pei
 
 
 
 
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
 
 
 
 
“All people have is hope. That’s what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring… A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family.”
Bruce Springsteen
 
 
 
 
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”
Bobby Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”
Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.”
Michael J. Fox
 
 
 
 
“Always cry for love, never cry for pain.”
Prince Rogers Nelson, from “Sometimes It Snows in April”
 
 
 
 
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
Unknown

Quotes June 07, 2022

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
Barack Obama – 44th United States President
 
 
 
 
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
Robert Greene – Author
 
 
 
 
“The value of biodiversity is that it makes our ecosystems more resilient, which is a prerequisite for stable societies; its wanton destruction is akin to setting fire to our lifeboat.”
Johan Rockström
 
 
 
 
“I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I have with Winston Churchill.”
Boris Johnson
 
 
 
 
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
My ambition was to live like music.
Mary Gaitskill,
writer, essayist
 
 
 
 
“It’s a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.”
Abby Wambach
 
 
 
 
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare – 1564-1616 – Poet-Playwright-Actor
 
 
 
 
“Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
 
 
 
 
It’s not my victory, it’s yours and yours and yours.
Harvey Milk,
politician, gay rights activist
June is Pride Month

Quotes June 05, 2022

The road to success is always under construction.
Lily Tomlin – Actress
 
 
 
 
“Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”
Queen Elizabeth II

 
 
 
 
“You can’t get rich in politics unless you’re a crook.”
Harry Truman
 
 
 
 
To make the future is highly risky. It is less risky, however, than not to try to make it.
Peter F. Drucker – 1909-2005 – Educator-Author
 
 
 
 
The future is always beginning now.
Mark Strand – Poet
 
 
 
 
“But that’s what happens. Once the human tragedy has been completed, it gets turned over to the journalists to banalize into entertainment.” ―
Philip Roth

Quotes May 29, 2022

Enjoying the ride to happiness, is happiness.
Maxime Lagace – Professional Hockey Player
 
 
 
 
I don’t know what the future will be, but I absolutely know that joy and the things that give us joy in this world, especially the natural world, are essential for everything.
Dara McAnulty
 
 
 
 
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.
Wendell Berry
 
 
 
 
If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Kahlil Gibran
 
 
 
 
Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia
 
 
 
 
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
Dark clouds become heaven’s flowers when kissed by light.
Rabindranath Tagore
 
 
 
 
The moral imagination believes and acts on the basis that the unexpected is possible. It operates with the view that the creative act is always within human potential, but creativity requires moving beyond the parameters of what is visible, what already exists, or what is taken as given.
John Paul Lederach

Quotes May 28, 2022

How high you fly is derived from how big you think.
Robin Sharma – Writer
 
 
 
 
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”
Rachel Carson
 
 
 
 
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.
Margaret Cho
 
 
 
 
“Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can’t be what you can’t see.”
Sally Ride
 
 
 
 
Staying positive doesn’t mean you have to be happy all the time. It means that even on the hard days you know better ones are coming.
Unknown

Quotes May 24, 2022

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Richard Bach – Writer
 
 
 
 
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
Oprah Winfrey – Actress-Entrepreneur-Talk Show Host-Media Executive-Philanthropist
 
 
 
 
“Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”
John D. Rockefeller
 
 
 
 
We have to forget. Or we’d never sleep ever again.
Ali Smith,
writer, playwright, journalist
 
 
 
 
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
Duke Ellington
 
 
 
 
Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
Margaret Cho,
actor, comedian, musician, writer
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”
Kahlil Gibran
 
 
 
 
Be brave when you are scared, and humble when you are victorious.
Unknown

Quotes May 21, 2022

Every soul on this earth is an undiscovered ocean. Every person an entire ecosystem of love, experience and beauty . Make sure you swim deeply with the ones you love and sail towards the people you’ve yet to discover
David Clark
 
 
 
 
“All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.”
Cherilyn “Cher” Sarkisian
 
 
 
 
“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”
Amelia Earhart
 
 
 
 
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
Gustave Flaubert – 1821-1880 – Novelist
 
 
 
 
Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both.
Barbra Streisand
 
 
 
 
There are two kinds of people who sit around all day thinking about killing people…mystery writers and serial killers. I’m the kind that pays better.
Richard Castle
 
 
 
 
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
 
 
 
 
“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”
The best things in life show up unannounced when conditions are met.
Kindness and joy are better given than sought.
Edmund Hillary
 
 
 
 
“With belief and passion, I feel anyone can tap into their energy and create the life they choose. It just takes a while to build a path that is beautiful and yours.”
Topher Kearby
 
 
 
 
Apple doesn’t need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles while waiting for entirely new forms of publishing to develop.
Virginia Postrel
 
 
 
 
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
Doug Larson
 
 
 
 
Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
Unknown

Quotes May 19, 2022

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
Henry Rollins
(I saw this at Providence, must be from their Rock ‘N Roll Bible~)
 
 
 
 
I don’t dwell on success. Maybe that’s one reason I’m successful.
Calvin Klein – Fashion Designer
 
 
 
 
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success.
Samuel Smiles – 1812-1904 – Author
 
 
 
 
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln – 1809-1865 – 16th President of the United States of America
 
 
 
 
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”
Henry Van Dyke Jr.
 
 
 
 
“The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
“Say ‘yes,’ and you’ll figure it out later.”
Tina Fey
 
 
 
 
“One man can make a difference and every man should try.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
 
 
 
 
“Power” is an abstraction, but its exercise requires tangible organization and institutions.
To concentrate power is to increase it, the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts.
Richard N. Goodwin,
speechwriter, presidential adviser
 
 
 
 
I have been driven by curiosity rather than certainty, by the wish to understand rather than the desire to pass judgment.
Ramachandra Guha,
historian, writer, environmentalist
 
 
 
 
I am learning to fly before I speak.
Jennifer Huang,
poet, writer, editor
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
How can anyone be against love?
Malcolm X,
Muslim minister, human rights activist

Quotes May 16, 2022

“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.”
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
Paul J. Meyer – Founder of Success Motivation Institute Inc.
 
 
 
 
“Laughter helps you put everything into perspective.”
Jim Henson
 
 
 
 
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander Pope
 
 
 
 
The single most important thing right now is to listen to the earth
Dahr Jamail
 
 
 
 
It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.
Rainer Maria Rilke
 
 
 
 
There is a great difference between comprehending the knowledge of things and tasting the hidden life of them.
Isaac Penington
 
 
 
 
What you lose in the fire, you will find in the ashes.
Creole Proverb
 
 
 
 
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
Joan Didion
 
 
 
 
One has to realize one’s limitations. Why kid yourself?
You cannot defend your design without knowing what you’re designing for.
I.M. Pei,
architect
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Why is normality a gold standard? Isn’t it so much more exciting to be different, to have glitter and a phenomenal spectrum of colours and possibilities?
Kai Syng Tan