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Quotes July 28, 2025

Most mentally healthy people have firmer boundaries. They don’t need to fix other people. They don’t need to make sure other people behave. They don’t need other people nearly as much in general. They deal with their own lives and let other people deal with theirs.”
Christopher Farnsworth
Robert B. Parker’s Buried Secrets
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
 
 
 
 
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
 
 
 
 

Reminders:
Don’t just engage in random acts of kindness. Engage in planned acts of kindness.
Julie Andrews,
actress, singer, writer
 
 
 
 
“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
Benjamin Franklin, on the Declaration of Independence’s implications
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 12, 2025

Laughter is our consolation prize for consciousness.
Louise Erdrich
 
 
 
 
There is absolutely no innovation without failure.
Only when diverse perspectives are included, respected, and valued can we start to get a full picture of the world.
Brene Brown,
writer, researcher, lecturer, motivational speaker
 
 
 
 
It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams.
Don DeLillo,
writer, playwright, screenwriter
 
 
 
 
All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.
Louise Erdrich,
writer, poet
 
 
 
 
We didn’t have a chance to form the world we were born into. Now we have the opportunity to make a new one.
Jane Roberts,
writer, poet
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.”
George Lucas
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
“One man can make a difference and every man should try.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
 
 
 
 
“Anyone who thinks they’re too small to make a difference has never met the honeybee.”
Popular saying, unknown attribution
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 03, 2025

You can’t win it if you’re not in it.
D. Wayne Lukas,
horse trainer
1935-2025
 
 
 
 
If you’re an overnight sensation, you can be yesterday’s news in no time.
Anna Wintour,
media executive
 
 
 
 
The best way to make a dream come true is to wake up.
Anna Wintour
 
 
 
 
“Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes
 
 
 
 
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
Charles Darwin
 
 
 
 
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
Jack Kerouac
 
 
 
 
“All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.”
Cherilyn “Cher” Sarkisian
 
 
 
 
“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.”
Thurgood Marshall
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 18, 2025

“Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.”
Billie Holiday
 
 
 
 
“Failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.”
Hank Aaron
 
 
 
 
“Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it, and you’ll start believing in it.”
Jesse Owens
 
 
 
 
“[If NATO] had existed in 1914 and in 1939 … I believe it would have prevented the acts of aggression, which led to two world wars.”
President Harry Truman, marking the 1949 treaty ceremony
 
 
 
 
“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.”
Marvin Gaye
 
 
 
 
“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.”
Doris Day
 
 
 
 
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”
From Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Story of a Mother”
 
 
 
 
Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water.
Anonymous, sometimes misattributed to Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 

Quotes March 13, 2025

Keep your head up, keep your shoulders back, keep your self-respect, be nice, be smart. And remember that there are practically no ‘overnight’ successes.
Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others.
Lucille Ball,
actor, comedian, producer, studio executive
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
“Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you’re not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.”
Roberta Flack
 
 
 
 
“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.”
James Truslow Adams
 
 
 
 
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin – 1840-1917 – Sculptor
 
 
 
 
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
Joseph Joubert – 1754-1824 – Essayist
 
 
 
 
“For everyone who has felt like they don’t fit. Your magic is in your uniqueness. Find the people who see your light.”
Catherine Cowles
 
 
 
 
‘My time here is short; what can I do most beautifully?’
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes March 12,2025

You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
John Coltrane,
jazz saxophonist, bandleader, composer
 
 
 
 
This idea that we are our own saviors, our own heroes. That’s hard, but also incredibly uplifting.
Reese Witherspoon,
actor, producer, entrepreneur
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
Our struggles and sorrows are not without purpose — they invite us to surrender and guide us toward our healing.
AmyAnn Cadwell
 
 
 
 
“Don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream.”
Liza Minnelli
 
 
 
 
“You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”
Dr. Seuss
 
 
 
 
“You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
 
 
 
 
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman
 
 
 
 
Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”
Shannon L. Alder
 
 
 
 
There is no quest so profound as freeing the flame of your childhood’s magic laughter.
Ricardo Gutierrez
 
 
 
 
The ordinary focus on what they’re getting. The extraordinary think about who they’re becoming.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes February 22, 2025

Can you remain silent and inactive when such things are done in our own community and country?
Ida B. Wells,
journalist, sociologist, educator, civil rights activist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future.
Malcolm X,
Muslim minister, human rights activist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
Harriet Beecher Stowe,
writer, abolitionist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
The biggest thing holding you back is you. Start there.
Hunter Post – Strategy Coach-Leadership Consultant
 
 
 
 
Belief creates behaviors.
Neale Donald Walsch – Author
 
 
 
 
Impossible is just an opinion.
Paulo Coelho – Author
 
 
 
 
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
Arnold Palmer – 1929-2016, Professional Golfer
 
 
 
 
Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s trouble, it takes away today’s peace.
Randy Armstrong – Musician
 
 
 
 
We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Ronald Reagan – 1911-2004 – 40th U.S. President
 
 
 
 
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Roger Ebert – 1942-2013, Film Critic
 
 
 
 

Quotes February 15, 2025

You can hear other people’s wisdom, but you’ve got to re-evaluate the world for yourself.
Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.
Mae Jemison,
engineer, physician, astronaut, first Black woman to travel into space
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale – 1921-1989-Author-Radio Personality
 
 
 
 
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.
George Lorimer – 1867-1937 – Journalist-Author-Publisher
 
 
 
 
“I write to understand as much as to be understood.”
ELIE WIESEL
 
 
 
 
“At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.”
Chuck Yeager
 
 
 
 
“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”
Galileo Galilei
 
 
 
 
“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
Benjamin Franklin
 
 
 
 
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”
Haile Selassie
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Quotes February 08, 2025

“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse.
Ernest Hemingway,
writer, journalist
 
 
 
 
“Here’s to us being afraid and doing it anyway.”
GABRIELLE UNION
 
 
 
 
Discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don’t want to do, in order to get a result you really want to get.
Andy Andrews – Author
 
 
 
 
“If I don’t laugh at least three times during the day, I’ve had a bad day. I’ve got to have a minimum of at least three good laughs.”
Lana Turner
 
 
 
 
“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.”
Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities”
 
 
 
 
Reminder:
Don’t be afraid to make yourself a priority.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes February 04, 2025

Every small interaction with someone is an opportunity to have a positive impact on both of your lives.
Brad Aronson
 
 
 
 
In my opinion all important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.
Max Beckman, 1938
 
 
 
 
Remember that we can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Virginia Woolf
 
 
 
 
Emotions are [neither] good or bad, and really a movement towards compassion, curiosity, and acceptance.
Susan David
 
 
 
 
It’s just as important for you to hear yourself speak your stories as it is for others to hear you speak them.
Tommy Orange
 
 
 
 
Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.
Aisha Tyler