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Quotes May 29, 2021

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant – 1724-1804 – Philosopher
 
 
 
 
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Henry Clay – 1777-1852 – American Attorney-Statesman
 
 
 
 
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher – 1813-1887 – American Minister
 
 
 
 
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt – 1858-1919 – Former President of the United States
 
 
 
 
The power of visibility can never be underestimated.
Margaret Cho,
comedian, actor, musician, writer
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
It doesn’t matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
Padma Lakshmi,
food expert, writer, television host, producer
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Good things will come from self-expression.
I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.
John Cho,
actor
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
I am never completely satisfied. There always seems to be something just beyond my reach.
Toshiko Takaezu,
ceramic artist, painter
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Every cell in my body, my ancestors’ bodies, is vibrating, enshrouded in embers.
stephanie mei huang,
interdisciplinary artist
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Quotes May 17, 2021

It seems to me that when I have a positive view towards anything, a positive result will more likely occur. Now being 79 years old and living a life that 99% of the time was spectacular, Ive proven my theory over and over again.
David Hoffman
 
 
 
 
We’re all–trees, humans, insects, birds, bacteria–pluralities. Life is embodied network.
David George Haskell
 
 
 
 
True self is true friend. One ignores or rejects such friendship only at one’s peril.
Parker Palmer
 
 
 
 
If I’m losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga
T. Guillemets
 
 
 
 
Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.
Robert Browning
 
 
 
 
Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window.
Claudia Gray
 
 
 
 
The person who practices unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness… will be an elevating influence wherever they go.
Orisen Swett Marden
 
 
 
 
I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry
 
 
 
 
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan
 
 
 
 
Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
 
 
 
 
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
 
 
 
 
At the end of the day it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished…it’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better. It’s about what you’ve given back
Denzel Washington
 
 
 
 
Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
Chinua Achebe
 
 
 
 
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
Anne Lamott
 
 
 
 
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson
 
 
 
 
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
A.A. Milne

Quotes May 16, 2021

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert Schweitzer
 
 
 
 
If you speak for the trees, you speak for all of nature.
Diana Beresford
 
 
 
 
I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
Audre Lorde
 
 
 
 
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
Getting lost is the only place worth going to.
Tiziano Scarpa
 
 
 
 
Every creature was designed to serve a purpose. Learn from animals for they are there to teach you the way of life.
Suzy Kassem
 
 
 
 
We’ve stolen our children’s future — and we’re still stealing it.
Jane Goodall
 
 
 
 
Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work; a future.
David Whyte
 
 
 
 
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands –one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Audrey Hepburn
 
 
 
 
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
To forget the self is to become one with the world as it is.
Dogen Zenji
 
 
 
 
I have always imagined paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges
 
 
 
 
Be like the sun for grace and mercy.
Be like the night to cover others faults.
Be like running water for generosity.
Be like death for rage and anger.
Be like the earth for modesty.
Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
Rumi
 
 
 
 
Life can survive in the constant shadow of illness, and even rise to moments of rampant joy, but the shadow remains, and one has to make space for it.
Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names For Love

Quotes May 13, 2021

Remember, every treasure comes with a price.
Kevin Kwan,
writer
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
The biggest challenge I’ve had to overcome is not just finding success, but rather finding success without compromising who I am.
XiXi Yang,
journalist, media personality, entrepreneur
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
Read with your ears.
Gerald M. Hopkins
 
 
 
 
One of the quietest revolutions in Religion 101 follows a student’s recognition that he or she has a worldview, a particular way of viewing reality that it is not the only way. A worldview is a wave, but not the entire ocean.
Barbara Brown Taylor
 
 
 
 
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
Fred Rogers
 
 
 
 
We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.
David Abram
 
 
 
 
Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine will be food.
Hippocrates
 
 
 
 
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
Rumi
 
 
 
 
To understand light you need first to have been buried in the deep-down dark.
Robert Macfarlane
 
 
 
 
A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.
Robert Southey
 
 
 
 
There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
The truth is in the mystery.
Akira Kurosawa,
film director, screenwriter, producer
 
 
 
 
One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
Vincent Van Gogh
 
 
 
 
You’ve got to do it by yourself and you can’t do it alone.
Martin Rutte – Speaker-Author
 
 
 
 
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang con Goethe – 1749-1832 – Poet-Novelist-Scientist
 
 
 
 
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last…Everything is waiting for you.
David Whyte

Quotes May 10, 2021

You must remember never to cease to act because you fear you may fail.
Queen Lili’uokalani,
first sovereign queen and last monarch of the Hawaiian islands
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
The way to lose any earthly kingdom is to be inflexible, intolerant and prejudicial.
Queen Lili’uokalani,
first sovereign queen and last monarch of the Hawaiian islands
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
 
 
 
 
Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.
Joanna Macy
 
 
 
 
Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don’t plant anything but Love.
Rumi
 
 
 
 
The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you.
John Naka
 
 
 
 
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Aeschylus – 525-455 BC – Ancient Greek Author
 
 
 
 
A wise man said: Don’t be afraid to start over again. This time, you’re not starting from scratch, you’re starting from experience.
Biggs Burke – Entrepreneur-Record Executive-Film Producer
 
 
 
 
Sometimes bravery is simply choosing to take the next step without fully knowing the path.
Glennon Doyle – American Author
 
 
 
 
We each have a star, all we have to do is find it. Once you do, everyone who sees it will be blinded.
Earl Simmons – 1970-2021 – Rapper-Songwriter-Actor
 
 
 
 
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
Stephen King
 
 
 
 
One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through and it will be someone else’s survival guide.
Brene Brown – American Researcher
 
 
 
 
After making a true decision, especially the tough ones, we usually feel a tremendous burden has been lifted from our shoulders.
Unknown

Quotes May 06, 2021

This, then, may be the world’s only hope for peace: that all of us, friends and enemies, allies and foes, brothers and sisters and strangers alike, understand we meet as guests together in ‘God’s own tent.’
Sister Marilyn Lacey
 
 
 
 
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
William Faulkner
 
 
 
 
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.
Deepak Chopra
 
 
 
 
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.
Brené Brown
 
 
 
 
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
Since before we were anatomically modern, humans have been making journeys into darkness to make and find meaning.
Robert Macfarlane
 
 
 
 
To labor is to pray.
Benedictine motto
 
 
 
 
The Earth is what we all have in common.
Wendell Berry
 
 
 
 
This is the first and principal benefit caused by this arid and dark night of contemplation: the knowledge of oneself and of one’s misery.
San Juan de la Cruz
 
 
 
 
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
W.B. Yeats
 
 
 
 
A life without festivity is a long road without an inn.
Democritus

Quotes April 26, 2021

When timeless moments solicit you, accept the invitation. Go deep within it, until you find yourself in your absence.
Jean Klein
 
 
 
 
In the cherry blossom’s shade
there’s no such thing
as a stranger.
Kobayashi Issa
 
 
 
 
Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fixed tension between veering and longing, and spins helpless, exalted, in and out of that fleet blazing touch.
Annie Dillard
 
 
 
 
For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children’s future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
 
 
 
 
Words act as a compass. Place speech serves literally to enchant the land; to sing it back into being and to sing one’s being back into it.
Robert Macfarlane
 
 
 
 
Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.
Esther Perel
 
 
 
 
What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest.
Adyashanti
 
 
 
 
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
John Muir
 
 
 
 
Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.
Daniel J. Levitin
 
 
 
 
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
 
 
 
 
There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one’s bias.
Phyllis Rose
 
 
 
 
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
 
 
The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.
Shozo Tanaka
 
 
 
 
Deep down, very few of us want safety to suffocate freedom.
Joel Salatin

Quotes April 25, 2021

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
Robert Kennedy – 1925-1968, Politician and Lawyer
 
 
 
 
Much like a wave is not just part of the sea but the very sea in its specific materialization, my voice and my words only make sense within a commonwealth of other beings that make me possible.
Bayo Akomolafe
 
 
 
 
I find more and more that attention is the elemental unit of time. Each moment we are fully paying attention is an atom of eternity.
Maria Popova
 
 
 
 
A name is a starting point for bringing the abstract into relationship, enkindling understanding.
Natalie Middleton
 
 
 
 
I learned in that moment that when I live in that kind of connection, I get to speak for Life with all of my life.
Mark Dubois
 
 
 
 
Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.
Elizabeth Bishop
 
 
 
 
What waits to awaken in each person is ancient and surprising, mythic and meaningful.
Michael Meade
 
 
 
 
In nature’s economy the currency is not money, it is life.
Vandana Shiva
 
 
 
 
This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.
Mary Oliver
 
 
 
 
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
E.B. White

Quotes April 24, 2021

It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.
All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
Anna Quindlen,
writer, journalist, columnist
 
 
 
 
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Christopher Morley,
writer, editor, journalist
 
 
 
 
The thing that’s important to know is that you never know. You’re always sort of feeling your way.
Diane Arbus,
photographer
 
 
 
 
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
Karle Wilson Baker,
poet, writer
April 22 is Earth Day
 
 
 
 
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan,
philosopher
April 22 is Earth Day
 
 
 
 
You cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you’re doing.
Christopher Walken,
actor
 
 
 
 
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
Bobby Knight – Basketball Coach
 
 
 
 
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
Walter Mondale,
politician, lawyer, 42nd vice president of the United States
1928-2021
 
 
 
 
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone – 1902-2002, Businessman and Author
 
 
 
 
Gratitude begins where our sense of entitlement ends.
Steven Furtic – Pastor and Songwriter
 
 
 
 
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
Viktor Frankl – 1905-1997, Psychiatrist and Author
 
 
 
 
The picture that we have of ourselves – will always determine how we respond to life.
Miles Munroe – 1954-2014, Minister
 
 
 
 
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
James Thurber – 1894-1961, Cartoonist and Author

Quotes April 21, 2021

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
Kenneth Clark
 
 
 
 
Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Leon Trotsky
 
 
 
 
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
 
 
 
 
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Wharton
 
 
 
 
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
 
 
 
 
It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.
Will Rogers
 
 
 
 
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
Once we choose hope, everything is possible.
Christopher Reeve,
actor, director, activist
 
 
 
 
In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.
High Hefner, born April 9, 1926
 
 
 
 
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire, born April 9, 1921
 
 
 
 
I’d rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.
Gerard Way, born April 9, 1977
 
 
 
 
I believe in pink.

I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.

I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.

I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.

I believe that tomorrow is another day,

And I believe in miracles.
Audrey Hepburn
 
 
 
 
Our work is never to shape ourselves into some ideal image, rather to discover who we already are and become that person with joyful abandon.
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 
 
 
Advertising doesn’t cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick fix, instant gratification, the dreamworld, and escape from all pain and boredom. All of this is part of what addicts believe and what we hope for when we reach for our particular substance…. Addiction begins with the hope that something “out there” can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. Advertising is all about this false hope.
Jean Kilbourne
 
 
 
 
Hubris, arrogance, is just one step ahead of loss of integrity, because if you think you’re better than other people, you know more, then you’re going to think, as many leaders have, that the rules don’t apply to them – so they lose their integrity.
Charles Koch
 
 
 
 
“It’s hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong”
Thomas Sowell
 
 
 
 
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway
 
 
 
 
I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking.
Joan Didion
 
 
 
 
There is a choice to make, a chance to take.
Jill McCorkle,
writer, educator
 
 
 
 
A side hustle is a means of making money alongside one’s main form of employment or income.
Dictionary.com
 
 
 
 
Good things happen to those who hustle.
Anais Nin
 
 
 
 
The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.
Unknown