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“It is good to love many things, for therein lies true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
~Vincent Van Gogh
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
~Vincent Van Gogh.
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
~Vincent Van Gogh
“Life is short and if you’re not careful you’ll spend so much time doing everything you ‘have’ to do that you’ll run out of time for things that bring you joy. Make space. It’s never convenient. It’s always worth it.”
~Michell C. Clark
“No amount of regret changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. But any amount of gratitude changes the present.”
~Marc and Angel Chernoff
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
~Thich Nhat Hanh
“Let your smile change the world but don’t let the world change your smile.”
~Connor Franta
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
~Ludwig Jacobowski
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
~Mark Twain
“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”
~Kobe Bryant
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
~George Bernard Shaw
“Patience is needed with everyone, but first of all with ourselves.”
~Saint Francis de Sales
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
~Mark Twain
“Life is a paved road. It’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow.”
~Vincent Van Gogh
“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.”
Carl Jung
“A fool thinks himself to be wise but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
~William Shakespeare
“Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.”
~Socrates
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future”
~Neils Bohr
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
~Abraham Lincoln
“The burden which is well borne becomes light.”
~Ovid
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
~Paulo Coelho
AMAZING
LOVING
STRONG
HAPPY
SELFLESS
GRACIOUS
~On a wall hanging
(Posted on Mother's Dy 2024)
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
~Andrew Jackson
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
~Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
“Trapped forever in memory or imagination, we are strangers to the here and now.”
~Michael E. Gerber
“Crazy it where it’s at. Sometimes you have to be a little cracked to let the light in.”
~Dr. Reggie Gold
“You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.”
~Julia Child
“If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.”
~Jack Davis
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
~Abraham Lincoln
“Indecision is the only decision that is doomed to fail.”
~Dr. Frank Sovinsky
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever they do, whoever they are.”
~C. S. Lewis
“Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.”
~Cicero
“Think with your whole body.”
~Taisen Deshimaru
"To succeed you must first organize your life to do so."
~Elinor Fish
"To succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession."
~Carlos Castaneda
“You don’t even have to find the cause. You don’t even have to find the thought that is causing the resistance. You just have to find the thought that isn’t causing the resistance.”
~Abraham-Hicks
"Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
~ Earl Wilson
“There were never so many active minds at work on the problems of diseases as now, and all of their discoveries are attending to the simple truth: That you cannot improve upon nature.”
~Thomas Edison
“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.”
~Buddhist Saying
A woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.
For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.
After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. “I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.”
The old woman smiled, “Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.”
Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.
“Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.”
~Sarah Bernhardt
“The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
~Bruce Lee
"The future is not someplace we are going to, but one we are creating."
~Deborah James
"We stand tallest while reaching for our dreams."
~Inside a greeting card.
"The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough.
~Professor Randy Pausch
A Dying Professor's Last Lecture.
“To keep every cog and wheel is the first step in intelligent tinkering.”
~Aldo Leopold
“You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”
~Edwin Louis Cole
“The time to relax it when you don’t have time for it.”
~Sydney J. Harris
“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.”
~Henry David Thoreau
“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.”
~Henry David Thoreau
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows."
~Helen Keller
“Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.”
~Alan Cohen
"When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your self is a sun with a thousand rays." [Posted on FB post with the pic of sun rays.]
~Pablo Picasso
“Everything is hard before it is easy.”
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter."
~Henry David Thoreau
“Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.”
~Charles Lamb
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
~Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)
“Recognize that unlearning is the highest form of learning.”
~Rumi
“May life treat you the same way you treat servers, store clerks, senior citizens, children and animals.”
~Seen on Facebook
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
~Anais Nin
“And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.”
~Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago
“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
~Maya Angelou
“If everything around you seems dark, look again. You may be the light.”
~Rumi
"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd."
~Alan Ashley-Pitt
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
~Native American Proverb
“When one tugs at a single thing in Nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
~John Muir
“All our actions take their hues from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.”
~William Thompson Bacon
“Although it does not mindfully keep guard,
In the small mountain fields
The scarecrow does not stand in vain.”
~Bukkoku
“Wag more, bark less.”
~Bumper sticker
“Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.”
~Yoda
“The thought of expelling sickness is itself sickness. Sickness will be expelled by abandoning yourself to it, carrying on within its midst.”
~Yagyu Munenori
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
~Albert Einstein
“If you don’t know where you’re going, you might end up someplace else.”
~Yogi Berra
“Don’t live every day as if it were your last. Live every day as if it were your first.”
~Paulo Coelho
“Most everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.”
~Jack Canfieldn change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows."
“The best way out is always through.”
~Robert Frost
“The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life.”
~William James
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.”
~Bruce Barton
“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
~Confucius