Tag: Various

Quotes July 27, 2024

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir – 1838-1914 – Author
 
 
 
 
The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run.
Ben Bradlee,
journalist, newspaper editor
 
 
 
 
I don’t want to find the secret. I’m afraid all the joy will go out of it if I find the secret.
Bob Newhart
 
 
 
 
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
Warren Buffett
 
 
 
 
“I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.”
Bob Hope
 
 
 
 
“You write your life story by the choices you make.”
Dame Helen Mirren
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 24, 2024

If you can laugh you can get through it.
Bob Newhart,
comedian, actor
1929-2024
 
 
 
 
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
John Cage – 1912-1992 – Composer-Music Theorist-Artist-Philosopher
 
 
 
 
“Three secrets to success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people.”
Sally Ride
 
 
 
 
“Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.”
Amelia Earhart
 
 
 
 
You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.
Tina Fey – Actress-Comedian-Writer-Producer
 
 
 
 
If there’s pleasure in action, there’s peace in stillness.
Emily St. John Mandel,
writer
 
 
 
 
I always just focus on what my own goals are, and not what anybody else’s goals for me are or their expectations.
Katie Ledecky,
competitive swimmer, Olympic medalist
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 14, 2024

Thus it was that ancient people recognized that a magical quality, a spirit, circulates along with gifts.
Charles Eisenstein
 
 
 
 
You are allowed to be happy, well rested, content, and appreciative of your life as it is.
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 
 
 
A library should not shush; it should roar!
Catherynne M. Valente
 
 
 
 
All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and someone who believes in them.
Magic Johnson
 
 
 
 
Real power is usually unspectacular, a simple setting aside of fear that allows the free flow of love. But it changes everything.
Martha Beck
 
 
 
 
I believe that much in the world around us is designed against experience. For example, the experience of actually touching the soil. How many times do we actually take off our shoes and walk on the dirt?
Lee Hoinacki
 
 
 
 
Our lives are themselves random: chance encounters, events and the accumulation of accidents being the defining features of our span upon this earth.
James Bridle
 
 
 
 
The cost of doing anything is life because our time, our energy, our attention, all of those things are finite. Our choice to do anything has a cost, and that cost is our life.
Adii Pienaar
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 30, 2024

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.
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Charles Baudelaire
 
 
 
 
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
“We will only attain freedom if we learn to appreciate what is different, and muster the courage to discover what is fundamentally the same.”
Thurgood Marshall
 
 
 
 
“The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
 
 
 
Your words have so much power. Every day, if you tell yourself “I love you,” if you give yourself one word of validation, it will change your mind.
Ashley Graham
 
 
 
 
With our words we have the power for creation and our own liberation.
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 
 
 
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
If I were two-faced, would I be showing you this one?
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
Everybody laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well they’re not laughing now.
Bob Monkhouse
 
 

Quotes June 25, 2024

I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic.
Donald Sutherland,
actor
1935-2024
 
 
 
 
Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.
Margaret Shepard – 1845-1924 – American Heiress
 
 
 
 
When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde – 1934-1992 – American Writer, Librarian
 
 
 
 
I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance.
Christina Baker Kline – Novelist
 
 
 
 
Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
L. M. Montgomery,
writer
 
 

Quotes June 20, 2024

If it comes down to one shot, I like to shoot the ball. I don’t worry about it. If it doesn’t go in, it doesn’t go in.
Jerry West,
professional basketball player, executive
1938-2024
 
 
 
 
I can really only sing about that one very special train that will take me out of this world. But, of course, I am also hoping that it will send me to the stars and help me discover the mystery of the cosmos.
Sometimes the melody can take you to places you did not mean to go — or even want to go.
Francoise Hardy,
singer, songwriter, actress
1944-2024
 
 
 
 
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
John Steinbeck,
writer, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
 
 
 
 
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
J.B. Priestley
 
 
 
 
The one who falls and gets up is so much stronger than the one who never fell.
Roy T. Bennett – 1939-2014, Author
 
 

Quotes June 15, 2024

One may be influenced or inspired by another artist’s vision, but finding one’s own distinct voice is the goal.
I create work that pleases me, that thrills me, that speaks to me. But it has to tell a story that is profound.
Faith Ringgold,
painter, mixed-media artist, activist
 
 
 
 
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
John Ruskin
 
 
 
 
“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”
Immanuel Kant
 
 
 
 
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
 
 
 
 
“Winning is fun… Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you’ve done is the point.”
Pat Summitt
 
 
 
 
“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 
 
 
 
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
 
 
 
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde
 
 

Quotes June 08-11, 2024

Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde,
writer, playwright
 
 
 
 
Possibly the greatest satisfaction comes from taking an active part in enlarging a child’s world, even a little.
Nonny Hogrogian,
writer, illustrator, Caldecott Medal winner
1932-2024
 
 
 
 
Thank you to the people who didn’t believe in me. To those who thought they were putting water on my fire, you were really adding gas to it.
Coco Gauff,
professional tennis player
 
 
 
 
Learn all you can from your mentors. Try to work alongside them. Their passion will amplify your passion.
Martha Stewart,
businessperson, entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
I love the energy of the morning.
It’s got to come from the soul. Where else is it going to come from?
Grace Jones,
singer, model, actor
 
 
 
 
“Within our dreams and aspirations, we find our opportunities.”
Sugar Ray Leonard
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 04-05, 2024

There is nothing so powerful as truth.
Daniel Webster
 
 
 
 
Anytime you feel bad about procrastinating, recall that Mozart composed the overture to Don Giovanni the morning of the day the opera premiered.
Blue Bird of Bitterness
 
 
 
 
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle
 
 
 
 
“Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
 
 
 
 
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
Calvin Coolidge
 
 
 
 
“The test of a business man is not whether he can make money in one or two boom years, or can make money through the luck of getting into the field first, but whether in a highly competitive field, without having any initial advantage over his competitors, he can outdistance them in a perfect honourable way and keep the respect of himself and of his community.”
Harvey Firestone
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 03, 2024

One person can make a difference. And one person with a video camera can make a world of difference.
Sorry, there’s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.
Morgan Spurlock,
documentary filmmaker
1970-2024
 
 
 
 
A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
Life is easy when you’re hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
Bill Walton,
professional basketball player, television sportscaster
1952-2024
 
 
 
 
You don’t want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried.
I strive to not deny myself experiences that open up to me. I hope to live without looking back in regret.
Lucy Liu,
actor, director, producer
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France – 1844-1924 – Poet
 
 
 
 
“Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”
Epictetus
 
 
 
 
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
Walt Disney
 
 
 
 
Everything you need to be amazing is already inside you
Darren Hardy – Author
 
 
 
 
If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature–even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe–has to change.
Janine M. Benyus
 
 
 
 
Multigenerational living is a growing trend because it offers a host of benefits. Not only does it provide financial advantages, but it also fosters stronger family bonds, enhances emotional support, and creates a sense of community within the home.
Susan Newman
 
 
 
 
They carry us through the world, but how often do we really listen to our bodies? A whole universe of wonder awaits when we do.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
 
 
 
 
“You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream — you’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.”
​DIANA ROSS