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Quotes October 04, 2021

“Home is the nicest word there is.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder
 
 
 
 
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
Jane Austen
 
 
 
 
You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.
Bruno Mars – Singer-Songwriter-Record Producer-Musician-Dancer
 
 
 
 
We must be impatient for change. Let us remember that our voice is a precious gift and we must use it.
Claudia Flores,
educator, lawyer, director of the Global Human Rights Clinic
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
James Herriot
 
 
 
 
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
 
 
 
 
He who has no fools, knaves, or beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.
Old English proverb
 
 
 
 
“If you don’t see a clear path for what you want, sometimes you have to make it for yourself.”
Mindy Kaling
 
 
 
 
When a society or a civilization perishes, one condition can always be found. They forgot where they came from.
Carl Sandburg
 
 
 
 
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
Nature’s what it’s all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.
Tim Dorsey, Nuclear Jellyfish
 
 
 
 
The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
 
 
 
 
According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that seem right? That means to the average person, if you have to go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.
Jerry Seinfeld
 
 
 
 
“If you’re illiterate, you probably live your life by a set of unwritten rules.”
Matt Fawcett
 
 
 
 
When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
Nora Ephron

Quotes October 03, 2021

“The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
 
 
 
 
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
John Lubbock
 
 
 
 
“Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”
Frances Wright
 
 
 
 
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
Paulo Coelho – Author
 
 
 
 
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton – 1643-1727 – Mathematician-Physicist-Astronomer-Author
 
 
 
 
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton – 1643-1727 – Mathematician-Physicist-Astronomer-Author
 
 
 
 
Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you’re doing. If you’re not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
Aretha Franklin – 1942-2018 – Singer-Songwriter-Pianist
 
 
 
 
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
Gustave Courbet,
painter, leader of the Realism movement
 
 
 
 
“What is the next thing?” The ineffability of that next thing preoccupies me more than anything else.
Where’s the thing that I haven’t seen myself do before?
Carmen Gimenez Smith,
poet, editor, publisher, educator
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
The creative word is key to joining in and affecting the ways of the universe.
Juan Felipe Herrera,
poet, writer, performer, activist, first Latino poet laureate of the US
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15

Quotes September 28, 2021

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
Gertrude Stein,
writer
 
 
 
 
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”
Montesquieu
 
 
 
 
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you.
Mary Lou Retton – Retired American Gymnast
 
 
 
 
“For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.”
Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
 
 
 
 
When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.
Kristin Armstrong – Three-time Olympic Gold Medalist-Former Professional Road Bicycle Racer
 
 
 
 
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus – 50 AD-135 AD – Greek Stoic Philosopher
 
 
 
 
You cannot do everything—but what single thing is within your reach and will give you peace today?
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 
 
 
Love is evil – it will make you fall in love with a goat
Russian Proverb
 
 
 
 
“Are you in control of the relationships in your life, or are you ceding that control to others? That standing lunch date, or the conference you’ve attended for years because your pal is involved — when is the last time those interactions either provided value or allowed you to give value? Do you come away energized or drained? If you are not deciding the rules of engagement and making deliberate choices about who you are spending time with, then you need to take back that control.”
The Inner Circle
 
 
 
 
“Unkindness involves a failure of the imagination so acute that it threatens not just our happiness but our sanity.”
Adam Phillips, On Kindness
 
 
 
 
Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.
Steve Maraboli – Author-Speaker
 
 
 
 
“The biggest fear most of us have with learning to say NO is that we will miss an opportunity. An opportunity that would have catapulted us to success, or that will never come again. And most of the time*, that simply isn’t true. I’ve found that the first part of learning to say NO is learning to accept that offers and opportunities are merely an indication that you’re on the right path- not that you’ve arrived at a final destination you can never find again.’”
Grace Bonney on saying no
 
 
 
 
“The big mistake in this pattern of failure is projecting your subjective lack of comprehension onto the object you are looking at, as “irrationality.” We make this mistake because we are tempted by a desire for legibility.”
A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
Timeless Insight
 
 
 
 
Why do we waste so much energy looking for someone to blame when something doesn’t go our way?
Dr. Brene Brown
 
 
 
 
For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life?
Matthew 16:26
 
 
 
 
When you start taking care of yourself you start feeling better, you start looking better, and you start to attract better. It all starts with you.
Unknown

Quotes September 04, 2021

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
Daniel Webster,
lawyer, statesman
 
 
 
 
That’s most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I was weeping for an altogether different reason. When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go. That is what I saw. It wasn’t really you, what you were doing, I know that. But I saw you and it broke my heart. And I’ve never forgotten.
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
 
 
 
 
I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.
Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
 
 
 
 
I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
 
 
 
 
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
Margaret J. Wheatley
 
 
 
 
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
Richard Schickel
 
 
 
 
“Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
Gustave Flaubert
 
 
 
 
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life’s gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
 
 
 
 
My basic view of things is — not to have any basic view of things.
Ingmar Bergman,
film director, screenwriter, producer
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.
Michelle Obama – Former First Lady of the United States-Author-Attorney
 
 
 
 
The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
David Bowie, New York Times, 2002
 
 
 
 
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mahatma Gandhi – 1869-1948 – Lawyer-Nationalist

Quotes September 02, 2021

In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.
Saddle your dreams before you ride ’em.
Mary Webb,
writer, poet
 
 
 
 
My favorite poem is the one that starts ‘Thirty days hath September’ because it actually tells you something.
Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them … well, I have others.
Groucho Marx,
comedian, actor, writer, radio and television personality
 
 
 
 
“There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.”
Malala Yousafzai
 
 
 
 
“I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.”
Evel Knievel
 
 
 
 
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.
J.M. Barrie,
writer, playwright
 
 
 
 
If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.
Wayne Dyer – 1940-2015 – Author
 
 
 
 
I suppose it’s like the ticking crocodile, isn’t it? Time is chasing after all of us.
J.M. Barrie,
writer, playwright
 
 
 
 
Hold the vision, trust the process.
Unknown

Quotes August 29, 2021

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
Voltaire
 
 
 
 
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
C.S. Lewis
 
 
 
 
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Chinese Proverb
 
 
 
 
“Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
Margaret Mitchell
 
 
 
 
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln – 1809-1865 – 16th President of the United States of America
 
 
 
 
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings – 1894-1962 – Poet-Author-Playwright-Painter
 
 
 
 
Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.
Isabelle Lafleche – Writer
 
 
 
 
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle
 
 
 
 
“Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space, but rather to improve the quality of life.”
Bertrand Piccard
 
 
 
 
You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances.
Unknown

Quotes August 17, 2021

“The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?”
Carl Jung
 
 
 
 
Life is a farce if a person does not serve truth.
Hilma af Klint
 
 
 
 
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin Luther
 
 
 
 
The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state.
Antonio Damasio
 
 
 
 
Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air or drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something.
Carl Sagan
 
 
 
 
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
We don’t just passively perceive the world; we actively generate it. The world we experience comes as much from the inside-out as the outside-in, in a process hardly different from that which we casually call hallucination. Indeed, in a way, we’re always hallucinating.
Anil Seth
 
 
 
 
The healing process is like most forms of growth—we cannot see change day by day, but over time we can review all that’s been resolved in our hearts.
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 
 
 
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.
Albert Einstein – 1879-1955 – Theoretical Physicist
 
 
 
 
People won’t see your struggle, they will only see your success.
Unknown

Quotes August 05, 2021

“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.”
Carlos Santana
 
 
 
 
“Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.”
Bill Belichick
 
 
 
 
Everybody’s working to get to the top, but where is the top?
I always want to get better. I always want to climb another step.
Rihanna,
singer, actor, fashion designer, businessperson
 
 
 
 
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
William Blake
 
 
 
 
“Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of the truth.”
Ludwig Borne
 
 
 
 
When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.
Philip K. Dick,
writer
 
 
 
 
“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”
George Bernard Shaw
 
 
 
 
Everyone encourages the successful, but only you can encourage yourself on the way to it.
Shilpa Ahuja – Author-Writer-Editor-in-Chief of Shilpa Ahuja Digital Media
 
 
 
 
Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.
August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob.
Jean Hersey,
writer, gardener
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt – 1884-1962 – Former First Lady of the United States

Quotes August 02, 2021

You have to go through the low points to appreciate the highs in life.
What else are you going to do? You’ve got to go with the feeling.
Dusty Hill,
bassist, musician
1949-2021
 
 
 
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“All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed – the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?”
Diane Lane
 
 
 
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Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
Paul J. Meyer – 1928-2009 – Writer
 
 
 
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Honor when you reach your limit—lean out when it’s time, walk away when you’re ready.
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 
 
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“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
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“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
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“I’ll aim for the moon and maybe only make the mountaintop. What a beautiful view to fail from!”
Sandra Valks in response to a question about whether to test our dream or risk the assurance of the dreaming
 
 
 
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“I hope today you remember that the sky is not humiliated by its vastness, and the mountains remain unashamed of their height. Mother Earth and her oceans are not afraid of their size, and the sun is not concerned if someone has to squint their eyes—it will shine and it will not apologize for its light. And like the trees teach us that it’s okay to lose our leaves as seasons change and then come back to life, I hope that nature teaches us to look at ourselves and be kind. I hope that we don’t dim or shrink or fold into spaces far too tight. Yes, today I hope you look at yourself and you are kind.”
Sophie Diener, Poet

Quotes August 01, 2021

“My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain…There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.”
Chief Seattle
 
 
 
 
Majorities, of course, start with minorities.
If the ends don’t justify the means, then what does?
Bob Moses,
civil rights activist, educator
1935-2021
 
 
 
 
And that’s the world’s biggest problem: the future is seen as someone else’s concern.
It is a time in which we will redefine what it means to be human, for this is not just the start of a revolution, it is the start of an evolution.
David A. Sinclair,
biologist, professor of genetics
 
 
 
 
On my own I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn’t, I’ll create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.
Oprah Winfrey – Actress-Entrepreneur-Talk Show Host-Media Executive-Philanthropist
 
 
 
 
The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It’s part of the job description.
Caterina Fake – Co-Founder of Flickr-Entrepreneur-Businesswoman
 
 
 
 
Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.
Shiv Khera – Author-Activist-Motivational Speaker
 
 
 
 
Your most valuable resources are your attention and devotion.
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 
 
 
This morning, when I was in the train, I read the Fourth [sic] Canto of Hell and was seized with a burning desire to write a symphonic poem on Francesca.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 
 
 
 
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
Theodore Levitt
 
 
 
 
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
Michael Crichton (1942-2008)