Tag: Various

Quotes January 13, 2024

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.
Andrew Murphy – Olympic Athlete
 
 
 
 
Literature taught me to be concerned about the moral life, in dance, too — how people behave toward one another, and what they take from and give to one another.
Joan Acocella,
dance and literature critic, writer
1945-2024
 
 
 
 
Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.
Myles Munroe
 
 
 
 
The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.
Vernon Howard
 
 
 
 
“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.”
James Joyce
 
 
 
 
“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
Jean de La Fontaine
 
 
 
 
The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
Florence Nightingale
 
 
 
 
“We never know the whole man, though sometimes, in quick flashes, we know the true man.”
Agatha Christie
 
 
 
 
Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored.
Terry Tempest Williams
 
 
 
 
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
It’s okay to think of yourself when working on your dream. Do it for you, not anyone else.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes January 09-10, 2024

The audience is a great teacher, as well as listener.
I think we’ve got to remember to grab onto our perks, whatever is the good thing about each age. Each stage of life should be a progression.
Glynis Johns,
actor, singer
1923-2024
 
 
 
 
To me, wealth is the ability to do what you want to with your time.
Andy Stumpf
 
 
 
 
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
Bob Marley
 
 
 
 
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
Mother Teresa
 
 
 
 
The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa – 1836-1886 – Religious Leader
 
 
 
 
I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.
David Bowie,
singer, songwriter, musician, actor
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”
Gustave Flaubert
 
 

Quotes January 01-02, 2024

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
John Dryden – 1631-1700 – English Poet-Translator-Playwright
 
 
 
 
With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garve – 1887-1940 – Jamaican Activist
 
 
 
 
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.
Germany Kent,
journalist, writer
 
 
 
 
“My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.”
Dionne Warwick
 
 
 
 
“You’ve got to dream a little bit if you’re going to get somewhere.”
George Shultz
 
 
 
 
“Curiosity is the essence of human existence.”
Eugene Cernan
 
 
 
 
“I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.
Gustave Eiffel
 
 
 
 
“The traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep.”
Margaret Mead
 
 
 
 
“All good ideas start out as bad ideas; that’s why it takes so long.”
Steven Spielberg
 
 
 
 
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
 
 
 
“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
Carl Sagan
 
 
 
 
“All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase— ‘I love you.'”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, from “The Offshore Pilot”
 
 
 
 
“Luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.”
Denzel Washington
 
 
 
 
“The bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.”
Lady Bird Johnson
 
 
 
 
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling
 
 
 
 
“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”
Robin Sharma
 
 
 
 
“The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.”
Ronald Reagan
 
 
 
 
“Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”
Madam CJ Walker
 
 
 
 
The best way to ensure success is to never lose energy because things aren’t going as fast as you want them to.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes December 31, 2023


 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 

Quotes December 11-13 2023

This is our century, dear reader, yours and mine. Let us encourage one another with visions of a shared future.
I made a few shows in my day.
Norman Lear,
screenwriter, television producer
1922-2023
 
 
 
 
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
Edmund Burke
 
 
 
 
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
Kahlil Gibran
 
 
 
 
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
Aristotle
 
 
 
 
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
Plutarch
 
 
 
 
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people.
Leonardo DiCaprio – Actor-Producer
 
 
 
 
Your current circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Nido Qubein – Businessman-Speaker
 
 
 
 
Being happy never goes out of style.
Lilly Pulitzer – 1931-2013 – Fashion Designer
 
 
 
 
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
Stephanie Perkins – Author
 
 
 
 
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
Anne Carson,
poet, essayist, translator
 
 
 
 
December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory.
John Geddes,
writer
 
 
 
 

Quotes December 09, 2023

A dead end is just a good place to turn around.
Naomi Judd – 1946-2022 – Singer-Actress
 
 
 
 
“You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.”
Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
 
 
 
 
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
Anne Lamott
 
 
 
 
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
“When you respect the idea that you are sharing the Earth with other humans, and when you lead with your nice foot forward, you’ll win, every time.”
Kristen Bell
 
 
 
 
“Confidence comes in owning your story.”
Laverne Cox
 
 
 
 
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
Leo Tolstoy
 
 
 
 
“Everybody needs a passion. That’s what keeps life interesting. If you live without passion, you can go through life without leaving any footprints.”
Betty White
 
 
 
 
“The world needs you.”
Madeleine Albright
 
 
 
 
Goals help you channel your energy into action.
Les Brown – Motivational Speaker
 
 
 
 
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl – 1905-1997 – Psychiatrist and Author
 
 

Quotes November 29-30, 2023

Don’t confuse your path with your destination. Just because it’s stormy now, doesn’t mean you aren’t headed for sunshine later. Don’t lose faith.
Trent Shelton – Football Player
 
 
 
 
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett Marden – 1848-1924, Author
 
 
 
 
To reinvent is to reinvent; you don’t stop.
Parker Posey,
actor
 
 
 
 
“Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.”
Ariana Grande
 
 
 
 
Not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness.
J.M. Barrie – 1860-1937 – Novelist-Playwright
 
 
 
 
No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly.
Murasaki Shikibu,
writer, poet
 
 
 
 
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
Italo Calvino,
writer, journalist
 
 
 
 
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”
Hermann Hesse
 
 
 
 
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs – 1955-2011, Entrepreneur and Inventor
 
 
 
 
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal,
writer
 
 
 
 
“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.”
Tecumseh
 
 
 
 
Show up in the world in a way that makes you proud. Speak words that you wouldn’t be ashamed to hear repeated back to you.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes November 09, 2023

At a certain point you know what you want to do. And you have no choice.
Cut away, strip away the unnecessary, and strip away what people expect.
Martin Scorsese,
filmmaker
 
 
 
 
At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you.
Shirley Hazzard
 
 
 
 
“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
 
 
 
“The best way to make a dream come true is to wake up.”
Dame Anna Wintour
 
 
 
 
“There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.”
Walter Cronkite
 
 
 
 
“There’s winning and there’s losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen.”
Earvin “Magic” Johnson
 
 
 
 
“Take your job seriously, but don’t take yourself too seriously.”
Alex Trebek
 
 
 
 
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.”
Carl Sagan
 
 
 
 
“A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”
Kurt Vonnegut
 
 

Quotes October 26, 2023

One speaks a word: I.
Louise Gluck,
poet, essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
1943-2023
 
 
 
 
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. … The man who never reads lives only one.
George R.R. Martin,
writer
 
 
 
 
Drone of the neighbor’s mowing, a red mailbox flag erected, a dog bark from three houses over, and this is what a day is.
Ada Limon,
poet, 24th poet laureate of the US
 
 
 
 
You must learn to look at things without preconceptions. Trust nothing.
You know, a lot of strange things happen in this world.
Koji Suzuki,
writer
 
 
 
 
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
Carl Jung
 
 
 
 
“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
 

Quotes October 24, 2023

Form the habit of always doing your best.
Bob Proctor – 1934-2022 – Author-Speaker-Legend
 
 
 
 
Everything is eventually recompensed, every effort of the heart eventually requited, though not always in the form you imagined or hoped for.
Maria Popova
 
 
 
 
Aesthetics enliven our senses, makes us feel alive, and actually keep us alive.
Ivy Ross
 
 
 
 
If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.
Stephen Levine
 
 
 
 
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
It’s time for greatness — not for greed. It’s a time for idealism — not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.
Marian Wright Edelman
 
 
 
 
I would say love is focused attention with benevolent intent.
J. Drew Lanham
 
 
 
 
The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.
Benjamin Zander
 
 
 
 
Disability is not the characteristic that defines you; it’s the characteristic that others project onto you, and it’s up to us to change those perceptions.
Haben Girma
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead