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Quotes April 15, 2020

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Edna St. Vincent Millay,
poet, playwright, Pulitzer Prize winner
 
 
 
 
The energy doesn’t end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.
Bob Fosse,
dancer, choreographer, actor, theater and film director
 
 
 
 
Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain’t what you ain’t.
John Prine,
folk singer-songwriter
1946-2020
 
 
 
 
Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.
Pele (Edson Arantes do Nascimento),
professional Brazilian football player
 
 
 
 
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
Agatha Christie,
writer
 
 
 
 
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vernon Law,
Major League Baseball pitcher
 
 
 
 
Each thing implies the universe.
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges,
writer, essayist, poet, translator

Quotes April 07, 2020

“Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.”
Anna Taylor
 
 
 
 
“If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.”
Vironika Tugaleva
 
 
 
 
“Self-care is not a waste of time; self-care makes your use of time more sustainable.”
Jackie Viramontez
 
 
 
 
“To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.”
Jill Bolte Taylor
 
 
 
 
Be happy. Just because things are not good, doesn’t mean you can’t see the good side of things.
Unknown

Quotes January 28, 2020

The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.
Jim Lehrer,
journalist, news anchor
1934-2020
 
 
 
 

Forethought spares afterthought.
Amelia Barr,
writer, teacher
 
 
 
 
Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.
Denzel Washington,
actor, director, producer
 
 
 
 
You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
Dorothea Lange,
documentary photographer, photojournalist
 
 
 
 
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.
Peter Drucker,
management consultant, educator, writer
 
 
 
 
It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen; this law is universal to the whole human race.
Seneca the Elder,
orator
 
 
 
 
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Life is better with true friends.
Unknown

Quotes January 23, 2020

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
poet, philosopher
 
 
 
 
You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
Dorothea Lange,
documentary photographer, photojournalist
 
 
 
 
Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.
Bill Veeck,
professional baseball club executive, owner, promoter
 
 
 
 
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
Frida Kahlo,
artist
 
 
 
 
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
Life is too short to hide your feelings. Say what you feel.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
People don’t always say “I love you.” Sometimes it sounds more like: Be safe. Did you eat? I made you this.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Some things need a little time and space to evolve into what they are going to be for you. Don’t force it. Let it flow.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.
unknown

Quotes January 11, 2020

“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same”
Carlos Castaneda
 
 
 
 
Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.
Jodi Picoult
 
 
 
 
“Awaken the stillness within you.”
Asad Meah
 
 
 
 
“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
James M. Barrie
 
 
 
 
“To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.”
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
“The path to become unmistakable is the willingness to be wrong, to be criticized and most of all, to matter. And if you’re willing to do something that matters, you are likely to be in the minority – and it probably means you’re doing something that’s unmistakable.”
Seth Godin
 
 
 
 
“What if joy is my only metric for success?”
Sarah Jones
 
 
 
 
Do not be afraid of work that has no end.
Avot De Rabbi Natan
 
 
 
 
The best things in life come with patience.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
There are three solutions to every problem: accept it, change it, or leave it. If you can’t accept it, change it. If you can’t change it, leave it.
Unknown

Quotes January 08, 2020

When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.
Sidney Poitier,
actor, film director
 
 
 
 
Be respectful of words. They mean something.
Katherine Anne Porter,
writer, journalist
 
 
 
 
Life is accepting what is and working from that.
Gloria Naylor,
writer, educator
 
 
 
 

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
Jim Rohn
 
 
 
 

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No… don’t blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away. Doesn’t sound very exciting, does it? But it is!”
Louis de Bernières, Corelli’s Mandolin
 
 
 
 
“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
Michael J. Fox
 
 
 
 
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
Robert Hand
 
 
 
 
”If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.”
Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.”
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”
Deborah Day
 
 
 
 
“Self-love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first.”
Beau Taplin
 
 
 
 
“If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”
Fred Rogers

Quotes January 05, 2020

Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives … not looking for flaws, but for potential.
Ellen Goodman,
journalist, columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner
 
 
 
 
Have knowledge of what you’re talking about. Read and be curious. Always listen.
Andre Leon Talley,
fashion journalist, magazine editor
 
 
 
 
The more you live, the less you die.
Janis Joplin,
singer-songwriter
LinkedIn
 
 
 
 
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Hal Borland,
writer, journalist, naturalist

Quotes January 02, 2020

Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.
Ashleigh Brilliant
 
 
 
 
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
Richard Branson
 
 
 
 
“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
Hermann Hesse
 
 
 
 
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”
Peter Marshall
 
 
 
 
“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.”
Colin Powell
 
 
 
 
Most of the world will make decisions by either guessing or using their gut. They will be either lucky or wrong.
Suhail Doshi
 
 
 
 
Nobody can make you happy until you’re happy with yourself first.
Unknown

Quotes December 15, 2019

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
W. Clement Stone,
businessman, philanthropist
 
 
 
 
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick,
writer, essayist
 
 
 
 
Silence is so accurate.

There is more power in telling little than in telling all.
Mark Rothko,
painter
 
 
 
 
What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
Max Planck,
theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner who discovered energy quanta
 
 
 
 
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee,
track and field athlete, Olympic medal winner
 
 
 
 
Ask yourself: ‘Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream?’
Ansel Adams,
landscape photographer, environmentalist
 
 
 
 
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky,
composer
 
 
 
 
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
Carl Linnaeus,
botanist, physician, zoologist, known as the father of modern taxonomy
 
 
 
 
The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?
Dame Judi Dench,
actress
 
 
 
 
One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
John Coltrane,
jazz saxophonist, composer
 
 
 
 
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Anatole France,
writer, journalist, Nobel Prize winner
 
 
 
 
Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
Doris Day,
singer, actress
 
 
 
 
And are we not all ‘mere guests’ upon this whirling earth?
Lee Smith,
writer

Quotes November 26, 2019

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.
Anjelica Huston,
actress, director, producer
 
 
 
 
Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don’t know how far we can go.
Bernard Malamud,
writer
 
 
 
 
Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.
Gustave Flaubert,
writer
 
 
 
 
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills,
operatic soprano
 
 
 
 
A perfect life is a contradiction in terms.
Swami Vivekananda,
Hindu monk, teacher of philosophy
 
 
 
 
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
Charles Mingus,
jazz musician
 
 
 
 
The world is possibility if only you’ll discover it.
Ralph Ellison,
writer
 
 
 
 
In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.
Jhumpa Lahiri,
writer
 
 
 
 
You’ll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.
Julia Child,
chef, cookbook author
 
 
 
 
The biggest threat to our future is people not feeling like the institutions that are supposed to be taking care of them aren’t.
Gen. John Kelly,
former White House chief of staff
 
 
 
 
Technical challenges don’t hold NASA back, but political challenges do.
Jim Bridenstine,
NASA administrator
 
 
 
 
The first thing people do when they have extra money in their pocket is buy protein.
John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods
 
 
 
 
Reusability is the holy grail of space.
Tim Hughes,
senior vice president and general counsel, SpaceX
 
 
 
 
Policy needs a process. … If you just make up a policy, it will end up being defined by unintended consequences instead of intended consequences.
Andrew Card,
former White House chief of staff
 
 
 
 
A ticket to space cost $250,000, which is expensive in Earth terms, but not that expensive in space terms.
Stephen Attenborough,
commercial director, Virgin Galactic
 
 
 
 
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
Elizabeth Lawrence,
gardener, garden writer
 
 
 
 
For I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
Nicolaus Copernicus,
early modern astronomer, mathematician