Quotes March 21, 2018

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.”
Robert Anthony
 
 
 
 
“There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn’t matter anymore.”
Laurie Halse Anderson
 
 
 
 
“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
Steve Maraboli
 
 
 
 
It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.
Albert Einstein,
theoretical physicist
 
 
 
 
There’s nothing so dangerous as sitting still.
Willa Cather,
writer
 
 
 
 
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
 
 
 
 
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common sense.
Beatrix Potter,
writer and illustrator
 
 
 
 
During times of radical change, how do we hold both the magnificence and tragedy of the world?
Geneen Marie Haugen
 
 
 
 
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
 
 
 
 
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
George Orwell
 
 
 
 
The greatest peril of misplaced worry is that in keeping us constantly tensed against an imagined catastrophe, it prevents us from fully living.
Seneca
 
 
 
 
If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches.
Rainer Maria Rilke,
poet and novelist
 
 
 
 
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de Beauvoir