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Quotes June 03, 2020

It is the consistency of the pursuit of the highest possible vision that you can find in front of you that gives you the constancy, that gives you the encouragement, that gives you the way to understand where you are and why it’s important for you to do what you can do.
Ossie Davis,
actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, civil rights activist
 
 
 
 
Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.
Rembrandt,
painter, printmaker, draftsman
 
 
 
 
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
Haruki Murakami,
writer
 
 
 
 
The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.
Steve Wozniak,
co-founder of Apple, electronics engineer, programmer, philanthropist, entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
Harper Lee,
writer
 
 
 
 
When you let go of the toxic people in your life, you will find that life becomes so much easier.
Steven Aitchison

Quotes May 30, 2020

If it can be solved, there’s no need to worry, and if it can’t be solved, then worry is of no use.
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
Albert Schweitzer
 
 
 
 
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.”
Amelia Earhart
 
 
 
 
Always remember that everything happens for a reason. It might not make sense now, but at the right time it will.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes May 20, 2020

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.
Stephen Hawking,
theoretical physicist, cosmologist, writer
 
 
 
 
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
Graham Greene,
writer
 
 
 
 
Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.
Rita Levi-Montalcini,
neurobiologist, Nobel Prize winner
 
 
 
 
Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man’s first immeasurable feat of magic.
Leo Rosten
 
 
 
 
Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.
Howard Schultz
 
 
 
 
St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great. The Emperor angrily demanded of him, “How dare you molest the seas?” To which the pirate replied, “How dare you molest the whole world? Because I do it with a small boat, I am called a pirate and a thief. You, with a great navy, molest the world and are called an emperor.”
St. Augustine thought the pirate’s answer was “elegant and excellent.”
Noam Chomsky

 
 
 
 
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
Irish Proverb

 
 
 
 
The world is gonna judge you no matter what you do, so live your life the way you want to.
Unknown

Quotes May 16, 2020

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.
Louis Armstrong,
trumpeter, composer, vocalist, actor
 
 
 
 
You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
Betty Friedan,
writer, women’s rights activist
 
 
 
 
I don’t know any other way to lead but by example.
Don Shula,
American football coach, winningest coach in National Football League history
1930-2020
 
 
 
 
If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside.
Julie Andrews,
actress, singer, writer
 
 
 
 
Have no fear of perfection — you’ll never reach it.
Salvador Dali,
Surrealist artist
 
 
 
 
I dressed and went for a walk — determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
Raymond Carver,
writer, poet
 
 
 
 
I don’t think there is anything wrong with white space. I don’t think it’s a problem to have a blank wall.
Annie Leibovitz,
portrait photographer
 
 
 
 
Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
Vivien Leigh,
film and stage actress
 
 
 
 
Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
Algernon Charles Swinburne,
poet, playwright, novelist, critic
 
 
 
 
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily colored by the circumstances in which one remembers.
Kazuo Ishiguro,
writer, Nobel Prize winner
 
 
 
 
I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
Little Richard,
singer, songwriter, musician
1932-2020

Quotes May 12, 2020

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.“
Groucho Marx
 
 
 
 
“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
Ashley Smith
 
 
 
 
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci
 
 
 
 
“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
 
 
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
 
 
 
 
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
Pablo Picasso
 
 
 
 
“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”
Stephen R. Covey
 
 
 
 
“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”
Ray Goforth
 
 
 
 
“For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time.
If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.”
Andy Rooney
 
 
 
 
If you’re not getting the results you want in life, the first place to look is your daily habits and routines.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Don’t feel guilty for doing what is best for you.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Apparently when you treat people like they treat you, they get upset.
Unknown

Quotes May 09, 2020

“A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are. People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever reaching anywhere near their potential.

“Ask for what you want. You usually won’t get it, and often the rejection will be painful. But when this works, it works surprisingly well. Almost always, the people who say “I am going to keep going until this works, and no matter what the challenges are I’m going to figure them out”, and mean it, go on to succeed. They are persistent long enough to give themselves a chance for luck to go their way.”
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor
 
 
 
 
“The cost of a thing is the amount of … life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
Life is about moving on, accepting changes and looking forward to what makes you stronger and more complete.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
There is not enough room in your mind for both worry and faith. You must decide which one gets to live there.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Happiness starts with you. Not with your relationships, not with your job, not with your money, but with you.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
No one is perfect… that’s why pencils have erasers.
Unknown

Quotes May 05, 2020

Never give someone a second opportunity to knock you down.
Steven Aitchison
 
 
 
 
Whatever comes, let it come. What stays, let it stay. What goes, let it go.
H. W. L. Poonja (Papaji)
 
 
 
 
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
 
 
 
 
“For me, it’s always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it’s only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.”
Aaron Rodgers
 
 
 
 
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
Benjamin Spock
 
 
 
 
“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.”
Roderick Thorp
 
 
 
 
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.”
Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 
“When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.”
Joe Namath
 
 
 
 
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius
 
 
 
 
“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.”
Thomas A. Bennett
 
 
 
 
“I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.”
Allen H. Neuharth
 
 
 
 
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
Lucille Ball
 
 
 
 
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”
Bob Moawad
 
 
 
 
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
 
 
 
 
You can’t control how some people will treat you or what they will say about you. But you can control how you can react to it. – Unknown

Quotes May 02, 2020

“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
Henry Ward Beecher
 
 
 
 
“How we perceive a situation and how we react to it is the basis of our stress. If you focus on the negative in any situation, you can expect high stress levels. However, if you try and see the good in the situation, your stress levels will greatly diminish.”
Catherine Pulsifer
 
 
 
 
“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. “
Aesop
 
 
 
 
“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.”
Doug Larson
 
 
 
 
“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.”
Dean Smith
 
 
 
 
“If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.”
George Burns
 
 
 
 
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
 
 
 
 
Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.
Lana Del Rey
 
 
 
 
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
Too many critics with no credentials.
Uknown
 
 
 
 
Soulmates come into our lives for different reasons. They are not always romantic partners. Sometimes they are the best friends we’ve ever had.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
You can’t force someone to respect you, but you can refuse to be disrespected.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
I respect those who tell me the truth, no matter how hard it is.
Unknown

Quotes April 30, 2020

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Claude Bernard,
physiologist
 
 
 
 
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges,
writer, essayist, poet, translator
 
 
 
 
With opportunity the world is very interesting.
Beatrix Potter,
writer, illustrator
 
 
 
 
I have a rendezvous with Life.
Countee Cullen,
writer, poet, playwright
 
 
 
 
The truth is … everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say.
Countee Cullen,
writer, poet, playwright
 
 
 
 
If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.
Buddy Guy,
blues guitarist, singer
 
 
 
 
One should never turn one’s back on a vivid imagination.
Lorrie Moore,
writer
 
 
 
 
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Voltaire,
writer, public activist, philosopher
 
 
 
 
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete.
Henry James,
writer
 
 
 
 
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham,
dancer, choreographer, pioneer of modern dance
 
 
 
 
When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
Arthur Conan Doyle,
writer who created the detective Sherlock Holmes
 
 
 
 
The first step is clearly defining what it is you’re after, because without knowing that, you’ll never get it.
Halle Berry,
actress
 
 
 
 
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
Samuel Johnson,
writer

Quotes April 29, 2020

What other people think of you is none of your business.
Regina Brett
 
 
 
 

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
 
 
 
 
I know this transformation is painful, but you’re not falling apart; you’re just falling into something different, with a new capacity to be beautiful.
William C. Hannan
 
 
 
 
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
 
 
 
 
You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.
Kiera Cass
 
 
 
 
There are far better things ahead than we ever leave behind.
C.S. Lewis
 
 
 
 
When we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.
Winnie the Pooh
 
 
 
 
It takes a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Distance means so little when someone means so much.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
True love doesn’t mean being inseparable; it means being separated and nothing changes.
Unknown