Tag: Various

Quotes February 25-27, 2025

The thing that engulfs me in music is the pulse. If I can find that heartbeat, I can live in there — in that music.
Love is universal, like music. I always say, ‘Love is a song.’
Roberta Flack,
singer, pianist
1937-2025
 
 
 
 
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
Rosa Parks
 
 
 
 
“The whole point is to live life and be – to use all the colors in the crayon box.”
RuPaul
 
 
 
 
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
 
 
 
 
Fact checking is not a vendetta. We all have a stake in us getting it right.
Lester Holt,
news anchor
 
 
 
 
Be stronger than your strongest excuse.
Inky Johnson – Author-Motivational Speaker-Former Athlete
 
 
 
 
“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”
Tennessee Williams
 
 
 
 
“You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. Don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
Johnny Cash
 
 
 
 
I am open and receptive to all the good and abundance in the Universe.
Louise Hay – 1926-2017- Motivational Author-Founder of Hay House
 
 
 
 
“Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.”
Fred “Mister” Rogers
 
 
 
 
Finish every day and be done with it. … You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
poet, essayist, philosopher
 
 
 
 

Quotes February 11-12, 2025

Even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it.
Etta James,
singer, songwriter
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
If you want to live a life of romantic adventure, then following in the path of conventional wisdom is not going to take you very far.
Tom Robbins,
writer
1932-2025
 
 
 
 
“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 
 
 
 
In the best conversations, you don’t even remember what you talked about, only how it felt.
John Green
 
 
 
 
Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else’s. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.
Jodi Picoult
 
 
 
 
Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A.C. Benson – 1862-1925 – Essayist-Poet
 
 
 
 
Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.
George MacDonald
 
 
 
 
“The best books come from someplace inside. You don’t write because you want to, but because you have to.”
Judy Blume
 
 
 
 
We are in relationship — everything around us is a mirror of ourselves, our internal selves.
Kalyanee Mam
 
 
 
 
Use your smile to change the world, don’t let the world change your smile.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes February 01, 2025

The soul is immense. And experience is immense, but in order to communicate the soul to experience, there needs to be a language of the soul.
Zhenevere Sophia Dao
 
 
 
 
Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colors; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
Khalil Gibran
 
 
 
 
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
John Bunyan
 
 
 
 
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
Forget that this task of planet-saving is not possible in the time required. Don’t be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.
Paul Hawken
 
 
 
 
“The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.”
Kalpana Chawla, astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick – Short Story Writer-Novelist-Essayist
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 20, 2025

Libraries are not about books, they’re about people.
Skye Patrick
 
 
 
 
When you commit an act of violence, you are basically disconnecting yourself. You are putting yourself outside the circle.
John Malloy
 
 
 
 
Sing, sing a song. Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don’t worry that it’s not good enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song.
Joe Raposo
 
 
 
 
Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.
Nicole Reed
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
…it must be one of the tasks of poets to make visible all the invisible connected threads that draw us together, to disclose the intricate web of life as a sentient whole.
Peter Abbs
 
 
 
 
There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.
Mary Anne Radmacher
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 16, 2025

“I’ve come to the conclusion that life is for the taking and just too short to dwell on the negative.”
Dolores O’Riordan
 
 
 
 
There’s a big difference between empty fatigue and gratifying exhaustion. Life is too short not to focus more on what matters most.
Marc and Angel
 
 
 
 
The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.
Roy T. Bennett – 1939-2014 – Author
 
 
 
 
“You are perfectly cast in your life. I can’t imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda
 
 
 
 
“Work often becomes a substitute for living. But I think the most successful artists, and the happiest people, find a fullness in both areas.”
Faye Dunaway
 
 
 
 
“What strikes me is that there’s a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.”
Andrew Lloyd Webber, musical composer of “Cats”
 
 
 
 
“We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 11, 2025

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau – 1817-1862 – Essayist
 
 
 
 
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
Vincent Van Gogh
 
 
 
 
“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”
Dag Hammarskjöld
 
 
 
 
“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”
Victor Hugo
 
 
 
 
“When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can’t move forward.”
Mary J. Blige
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Robin Williams – 1951-2014 – Comedian-Actor
 
 
 
 
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
Albert Schweitzer
 
 
 
 

Quotes January 01, 2025

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling
 
 
 
 
“Ask yourself about the kind of life you want: What would you do day to day, and with whom, and where? Consider the life you have. Do one thing today, however small, to close the gap between the two.”
Dame Maggie Smith
 
 
 
 
The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.
Marianne Williamson – Author-Speaker
 
 
 
 
“We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“Education is one of the blessings of life—and one of its necessities.”
Malala Yousafzai
 
 
 
 
Big things are best said, are almost always said, in small words.
Peggy Noonan,
columnist, Pulitzer Prize for Commentary recipient
 
 
 
 
I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results.
Alicia Keys,
singer, songwriter, pianist
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 23, 2024

“Pain changes shape, but it never disappears. You can’t control what hurts or breaks you, but you can control how you choose to move forward. Fight for what you love, because no one else will do it for you. Every moment in your life is an opportunity to change who you are. Don’t define yourself by what you lost, but by what you do with what’s left.”
Keanu Reeves
 
 
 
 
“Your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.”
Lee Daniels
 
 
 
 
Simplicity is the final achievement.
Frederic Chopin,
composer, pianist
 
 
 
 
Sometimes the biggest accomplishment in life is to find yourself.
Luisa Fernanda Cicero – Television Presenter
 
 
 
 
That’s the thing about December: it goes by you in a flash. If you just close your eyes, it’s gone.
Donal Ryan,
writer
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Eckhart Tolle – Spiritual Teacher-Author
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 17, 2024

New forms of evil raise new moral questions. Who is to blame for them?
The worst times, as we see, separate the civilized of the world from the uncivilized.
Lance Morrow,
journalist, essayist, writer
1939-2024
 
 
 
 
The only thing more challenging than pursuing the highest version of yourself is not pursuing the highest version of yourself.
Dan Koe – Freelance Creator
 
 
 
 
Prioritize the uniqueness that make you you, / and the invisible magnet that draws in other like-minded souls / to dance in your orbit.
Donna Ashworth,
poet, writer
 
 
 
 
I think with everything you do, you can take something from it. You can take some more understanding. You learn something.
I can’t remember what’s happening tomorrow, and I can’t remember what happened last week. Sonnets and Shakespeare I can remember.
Judi Dench,
actor
 
 
 
 
The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
Mikhail Baryshnikov,
dancer, choreographer, actor
 
 
 
 
I probably have genius. But no talent.
Francis Ford Coppola,
filmmaker
 
 
 
 
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
Desmond Tutu
 
 
 
 
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 02-03, 2024

You can do an awful lot of teaching — not just basketball — when things don’t go well.
I never scored a basket. The players did everything. Without players, you can’t have a game.
Lou Carnesecca,
college basketball coach
1925-2024
 
 
 
 
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare – 1564-1616 – Poet-Playwright-Actor
 
 
 
 
I have a real sort of ownership of who I am and what I want.
Cynthia Erivo,
actor, singer
 
 
 
 
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
Henry Ford
 
 
 
 
“Leadership requires action: daring to take steps that are necessary but unpopular, challenging the status quo in order to reach a brighter future.”
Benazir Bhutto
 
 
 
 
“Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.”
Alice Childress
 
 
 
 
A good education can change anyone. A good teacher can change everything!
Unknown