Tag: Various

Quotes March 14, 2024

Be ready for your chance, even if you can’t see your way today.
Eleanor Collins,
singer, television host, “Canada’s first lady of jazz”
1919-2024
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham,
dancer, choreographer, pioneer of modern dance
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
But tomorrow, we’ll run a little bit faster / Tomorrow, we’re going to find what we’re after at last
Eric Carmen,
singer, songwriter, musician
1949-2024
 
 
 
 
Our heads are round so thought can change direction.
Francis Picabia
 
 
 
 
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus
 
 
 
 
Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
Henry Miller
 
 
 
 
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.
Miles Davis
 
 
 
 
Seek to be whole, not perfect.
Oprah Winfrey – Television Personality, Actor, Philanthropist
 
 

Quotes March 02, 2024

You will always have the time for the things you choose to put first in your life.
Brad Turnbull – Author
 
 
 
 
What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
Toni Morrison,
writer, editor, educator, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature
 
 
 
 
I may not be there yet, but I am closer than I was yesterday.
Misty Copeland – Ballet Dancer
 
 
 
 
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond.
Fred Rogers,
television host, author, producer, minister
 
 
 
 
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
The emphasis is more on the process of Becoming than on the content of Being.
John Weir
 
 
 
 
Every moment is a moment. Every moment makes a certain request of us. The question is how we answer it.
Charlotte Selver
 
 
 
 
All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
 
 
 
 
Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.
D. T. Suzuki

 
 

Quotes February 28, 2024

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
SENECA
 
 
 
 
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
LATIN PROVERB
 
 
 
 
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
 
 
 
 
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
 
 
 
 
Speak not evil one of another, brethren . . . There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
JAMES 4:11-12
 
 
 
 
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO
 
 
 
 
You can still get gas in Heaven, and drink in Kingdom Come. In the meantime, I’m cleaning my gun.
MARK KNOPFLER, “CLEANING MY GUN”
 
 
 
 
People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.
Niccolò Machiavelli
 
 
 
 
One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.
Anton Chekhov, Letter to Alexander Lazarev-Gruzinsky
 
 
 
 
Banality of evil: A phrase coined by philosopher Hannah Arendt that describes the thesis that the great evils in history generally were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths, but rather by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal.
 
 

Quotes February 24-25, 2024

We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it.
Nina Simone,
singer, songwriter, pianist, civil rights activist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill – 1883-1970 -Author
 
 
 
 
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. – American Author
 
 
 
 
I’m not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they’re held together by Scotch tape.
Richard Scarry,
writer, illustrator
 
 
 
 
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.
J.P. Morgan – 1837-1913 – Financer-Industrial Organizer
 
 
 
 
Courage of the heart is very rare. Let it guide you.
Sarah J. Maas – Author
 
 
 
 
Stop shrinking yourself to fit places you’ve outgrown.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes February 20, 2024

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.
Kevin Kelly
 
 
 
 
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
Madeleine L’Engle
 
 
 
 
Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.
River Phoenix
 
 
 
 
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
William Hazlitt
 
 
 
 
From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.
Richard Paul Evans
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
Jack Kornfield
 
 
 
 
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.
Richard Bach
 
 

Quotes February 17, 2024

Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you’re on the journey … but you’ve got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
Usher Raymond IV,
singer, songwriter, dancer
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
If you can’t be free, be a mystery.
Rita Dove,
poet, writer, Pulitzer Prize winner
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
Little boys want to be firefighters or athletes or rock stars. I wanted to be on the radio.
Bob Edwards,
broadcast journalist
1947-2024
 
 
 
 
How high you fly is derived from how big you think.
Robin Sharma – Writer
 
 
 
 
“Too many of us still believe our differences define us.”
John Lewis
 
 
 
 
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
Martin Luther
 
 
 
 
You can sit in a landscape for hours and disappear. You can be part of the quiet. Or you hear the songs of the wind.
Lily Gladstone,
actor
 
 
 
 

Reminders:

Don’t count the days. Make the days count.
Muhammad Ali,
professional heavyweight boxer, activist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes February 14-15, 2024

“Being impacted by being what happened to you isn’t victimhood, it’s human.
Making an identity out of it is victimhood.”
Seerut Chawla
 
 
 
 
Determined imagination, thinking from the end, is the beginning of all miracles.
Neville Goddard-1905-1972 – Author-Influential Teacher
 
 
 
 
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich – Politician – Author – Historian
 
 
 
 
Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.
Maurice Setter – 1936-2020 – English Football Player & Manager
 
 
 
 
Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.
Price Pritchett – Author-Business Advisor-Speaker
 
 

Quotes February 08, 2024

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
Madam C. J. Walker,
entrepreneur, philanthropist, activist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
After so many years of doing a character who is indelible, who is so well recognized around the world … what happens is very often people begin to confuse you with the character.
Carl Weathers,
actor, professional American football player
1948-2024
 
 
 
 
What would happen to our view of time if we could better see our wheres?
Jenny Odell
 
 
 
 
I love a broad margin to my life.
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.
Jessica Howell – Actress
 
 
 
 
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho – Author
 
 
 
 
Slowing down is not a function of speed. It is a function of awareness, and I don’t want to make awareness a mental construct. It’s a function of presence.
Bayo Akomolafe
 
 
 
 
All truths wait in all things,
They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
The insignificant is as big to me as any,
(What is less or more than a touch?)
Walt Whitman
 
 
 
 
All over, the countryside opens up into crackings and creakings, into a boiling of healthy new life.
It’s as if we were inside a huge honeycomb of light which was also the interior of an immense, flaming-hot rose.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
 
 

Quotes February 06, 2024

You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that’s what the theatre is — it lights up right away.
Chita Rivera,
actor, singer, dancer
1933-2024
 
 
 
 
The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it — and then dismantle it.
Ibram X. Kendi,
writer, historian, educator, anti-racist activist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
Make the ordinary come alive…the extraordinary will take care of itself.
William Martin – Author
 
 
 
 
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.
Henry B. Eyring – Author-Educational Administrator-Religious Leader
 
 
 
 
We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
Audre Lorde – 1934-1992 – Writer-Librarian-Civil Rights Activist
 
 
 
 
For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh – 1853-1890 – Painter
 
 
 
 
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey – 1932-2012-Educator-Author-Businessman-Keynote Speaker
 
 
 
 
Every hour is another syllable in your epitaph.
Fred Chappell
 
 
 
 
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Anaïs Nin
 
 
 
 
“To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.”
Will Durant
 
 
 
 

Quotes February 04-05, 2024

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.
John Travolta
 
 
 
 
The brain is neither immutable nor static but continuously remodeled by the lives we lead.
Richard J. Davidson
 
 
 
 
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
 
 
 
 
The more you practice tolerating discomfort, the more confidence you’ll gain in your ability to accept new challenges.
Amy Morin
 
 
 
 
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.
Shunryu Suziki
 
 
 
 
True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.
Daniel Goleman
 
 
 
 
People respond in accordance to how you relate to them.
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
From my most unnoticed actions,
my most veiled writing —
from these alone will I be understood.
C.P. Cavafy
 
 
 
 
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
Lucy Maud Montgomery