Tag: Various

Quotes May 29, 2024

“Some hurts can be packed away and forgotten about, and they’ll fade with time. And some become caged animals that do more damage, become more feral, the longer they’re ignored.”
Kait Nolan
 
 
 
 
“Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.”
Paul Valéry
 
 
 
 
“There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.”
Édouard Manet
 
 
 
 
“The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.”
Phillis Wheatley
 
 
 
 
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
Edwin H. Land
 
 
 
 
Resilience isn’t something we’re born with or without. It’s a skill we can acquire and sharpen at any time, and one of our main ways to do that is by practicing acceptance.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes May 28, 2024

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
Bluebird of Bitterness
 
 
 
 
“Head up, heart open. To better days!”
T.F. Hodge
 
 
 
 
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
John D. Rockefeller
 
 
 
 
“Just because they say it’s impossible doesn’t mean you can’t do it.”
Roger Bannister
 
 
 
 
“Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire.”
Bob Dylan
 
 
 
 
Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you’re doing. If you’re not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
Aretha Franklin – 1942-2018 – Singer-Songwriter-Pianist
 
 
 
 
Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often
Lisa Nichols – Author-Motivational Speaker
 
 
 
 
“As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.”
Laura Nyro
 
 
 
 
“You can be strong and nice. You don’t have to be one or the other.”
BETH O’LEARY, THE FLATSHARE
 
 
 
 

Quotes April 30, 2024

The future is always beginning now.
Mark Strand – Poet
 
 
 
 
We all do ‘do, re, mi,’ but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
Louis Armstrong,
trumpeter, vocalist, jazz musician
 
 
 
 
“The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip.”
Robert Peary
 
 
 
 
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”
Marian Wright Edelman
 
 
 
 
“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.”
Doris Day
 
 
 
 
“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
Maya Angelou
 
 
 
 
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”
From Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Story of a Mother”
 
 

Quotes April 27, 2024

I think there is a time to be funny and a time to not be so funny.
I’m sometimes baffled by the number of readers who believe that cartoons should be lightweight and entertainingly ‘funny.’ Humor has a lot of relatives — wry, subtle, slapstick and even black …
Don Wright,
editorial cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize winner
1934-2024
 
 
 
 
One finds limits by pushing them.
Herbert Simon – 1916-2001 – Political Scientist
 
 
 
 
Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.
Shiv Khera – Author-Activist-Motivational Speaker
 
 
 
 
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
Eileen Caddy – 1917-2006 – Author
 
 
 
 
The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.
Marianne Williamson – Author-Speaker
 
 
 
 
I learned one thing. … Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.
You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
Ernest Hemingway,
writer, journalist, Nobel Prize for Literature recipient
 
 
 
 
It’s hard to remake decisions and even harder to rethink nondecisions.
Katharine Graham,
newspaper publisher
 
 
 
 
Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes April 20-22, 2024

You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that’s how we’re going to protect the Earth.
Julia Butterfly Hill,
environmental activist
April 22 is Earth Day
 
 
 
 
“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.”
Herodotus
 
 
 
 
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
Willa Cather
 
 
 
 
“I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.”
Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
Alfred North Whitehead
 
 
 
 
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you to where you want to go, no one else.
Les Brown – Motivational Speaker
 
 
 
 
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill – 1874-1965 – Former British Prime Minister
 
 
 
 
Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
Robin Sharma – Writer
 

Quotes April 08-18, 2024

When you look at this mirror I hope you’ll remember that there’s always another way of seeing things: that’s the beginning of wisdom.
John Barth,
writer
1930-2024
 
 
 
 
I think we helped create a place for a civil discourse and respect for complexity in a medium which often respects neither. … Those aren’t small things.
To have been able hold the line … against a tide that’s going to engulf us all in the end, for a few years, has been a source of gratification to me.
Robert MacNeil,
broadcast journalist, news anchor
1931-2024
 
 
 
 
I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it or dreaming about it. … I got there by working for it.
Estee Lauder,
entrepreneur, businessperson
 
 
 
 
Who knows what is on the opposite side of each hour!
Juan Ramon Jimenez,
poet, editor, critic, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
 
 
 
 
Trust in yourself, embrace challenges as opportunities for growth, and strive to become the best version of yourself.
Motivation, perseverance, curiosity and desire is the secret magic sauce.
Kimberly Washington,
entrepreneur, founder of Space4Girls
 
 
 
 
Choose your journey, change your journey, own your journey, but above all else, enjoy your journey.
I don’t think people understand that a lot of what we’re doing in space is about making life here on Earth better, or studying Earth and how Earth is changing.
Susan Kilrain,
aerospace engineer, astronaut, test pilot
 
 
 
 
Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine – Author
 
 
 
 
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang con Goethe – 1749-1832 – Poet-Novelist-Scientist
 
 
 
 
Gratitude begins where our sense of entitlement ends.
Steven Furtic – Pastor and Songwriter
 
 
 
 
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
Bobby Knight – Basketball Coach
 
 
 
 
The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen – 1864-1912 – Author
 
 
 
 
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes – 1883-1946 – Economist-Mathematician
 
 
 
 
The control center of your life is your attitude.
Norman Cousins – 1915-1990, Journalist and Author
 
 
 
 
The best project you’ll ever work on is you.
Sonny Franco – Actor
 
 
 
 

Quotes April 08-09, 2024

Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.
Tony Robbins – Author-Speaker
 
 
 
 
You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
John C. Maxwell – American Author
 
 
 
 
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”
Marie Curie
 
 
 
 
Trust in yourself, embrace challenges as opportunities for growth, and strive to become the best version of yourself.
Kimberly Washington,
entrepreneur, founder of Space4Girls
 
 
 
 
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”
Hippocrates
 
 
 
 
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
 
 
 
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”
John Steinbeck
 
 
 
 
In the deep sky where there had been a sun, we saw a ring of white silver; a smoking ring, and all the smokes were silver, too; gauzy, fuming, curling, unbelievable. And who had ever seen the sky this color!
Elizabeth Enright,
writer, illustrator
 
 
 
 
Reminders:
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
 
 
 
 

Quotes March 28, 2024

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence.
Gloria Naylor,
writer
 
 
 
 

Mistakes are part of the game. It’s how well you recover from them, that’s the mark of a great player.
Alice Cooper
 
 
 
 
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson – 1709-1784 – English Critic-Biographer-Essayist-Poet
 
 
 
 
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn’t mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
Enoch Powell – 1912-1998 – Politician
 
 
 
 

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
Voltaire
 
 
 
 
“A memory is a beautiful thing, it’s almost a desire that you miss.”
Gustave Flaubert
 
 
 
 
“Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
We’re often silent. We don’t yell and we don’t complain. We’re patient, as always. Because we don’t have the words yet.
I write not about war, but about human beings in war. I write not the history of a war, but the history of feelings. I am a historian of the soul.
Svetlana Alexievich,
writer, journalist, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
I’d stay up until 3 or 4 in the morning, as long as anyone would play with me. I worked eight or 12 hours a day on chess.
I’m the most important American chess player. … That’s why chess should support me. I’m bringing it publicity, and ultimately, money.
Lisa Lane,
chess player, US women’s chess champion
1933-2024
March is Women’s History Month
 
 

Quotes March 27, 2024

Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.
Robert Schuller – 1926-2015 – Pastor-Speaker-Author
 
 
 
 
“All that we don’t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.”
Philip Roth
 
 
 
 
“When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, ‘No, I went to films.'”
Quentin Tarantino
 
 
 
 
“I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.”
Elizabeth Taylor
 
 
 
 
“Give freely of yourself always to your family, your friends, your community, and your country. The world will pay you back many times over.”
Sandra Day O’Connor
 
 
 
 
“It’s not the honors and prizes of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It’s the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.”
Mister Rogers
 
 
 
 
“It’s important to acknowledge the mistakes you’ve made in life, because it’s really through those that you learn things. I’ve made hundreds.”
Andrew Lloyd Webber
 
 
 
 
“Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.”
John Lewis, one of the leaders of the Selma to Montgomery marches
 
 
 
 

Quotes March 21, 2024

I’m just kind of ready for the next chapter and a new challenge in my life.
Caitlin Clark,
college basketball player, NCAA Division I all-time leading scorer across men’s and women’s basketball
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
Not only are you not always right — when you are wrong, you are the worst wrong you can possibly be.
Fran Lebowitz,
writer, public speaker
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
I do not have a magic formula for how every woman should live her life, but I do know that we need to give one another a hand.
Madeleine Albright,
diplomat, first woman to serve as US secretary of state
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
I went to sleep with the distinct concept that dogs do talk if you’re really paying attention.
By doing it well enough, the dollars will take care of themselves.
Joe Camp,
screenwriter, filmmaker, creator of “Benji” franchise
1939-2024
 
 
 
 
“People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.”
Khaled Hosseini
 
 
 
 
“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
Jack London
 
 
 
 
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
W. Somerset Maugham – 1874-1965 – Writer
 
 
 
 
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver – 1864-1943 – Scientist-Inventor