Monday, July 29, 2024

 Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.” ―Yuri Kochiyama

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang out.” ―Abraham Lincoln

“Never regret anything that made you smile.” ―Mark Twain

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” —Mark Twain

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan

“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” —Mary Kay Ash

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” ―Chinese Proverb

“Only the paranoid survive.” —Andy Grove

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” —Babe Ruth

“I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push this company in the next 24 hours.’” —Leah Busque

“If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” —Michele Ruiz

“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes―understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” ―Arianna Huffington

“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it. Sauté it. Whatever. MAKE.” —Joss Whedon

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” —William W. Purkey

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”―Neil Gaiman

“Everything you can imagine is real.”―Pablo Picasso

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” ―Helen Keller

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” ―Lewis Carroll

“Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.” —Socrates

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right―for you’ll be criticized anyway.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” ―Abraham Lincoln

The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances.” —Unknown

“If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is.” —Catherine Pulsifier

“You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.” —Unknown

“Impossible is just an opinion.” —Paulo Coelho

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Everything is difficult before it is easy.

Find a need and fill it.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.” Japanese proverb

I don’t know when I’ll be successful, but I certainly know that I will.

If an opportunity does not knock, build a door.” Melton Berle

We all are special we just need to find our specialty.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

“True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.


 If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” ―Wayne Dyer

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” ―Theodore Roosevelt

“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” ―Shonda Rhimes

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” ―George Lorimer

“I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.” ―Michelle Obama

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” ―Mahatma Gandhi

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ―Kurt Cobain

“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” ―Roy T. Bennett

“Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.” ―Frank Ocean

Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried but you’ve actually been planted.” ―Christine Caine

“Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” ―Unknown

“Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come.” ―Unknown

“Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” ―Anne Frank

“Don’t quit yet, the worst moments are usually followed by the most beautiful silver linings. You have to stay strong, remember to keep your head up and remain hopeful.” ―Unknown

“When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters―one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” ―John F. Kennedy

“Good. Better. Best. Never let it rest. ’Til your good is better and your better is best.” ―St. Jerome.

“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” ―Albert Einstein

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” ―Arthur Ashe

Dreams don’t work unless you do.” ―John C. Maxwell

“Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded there.” ―Dr. Wayne D. Dyer

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine―and shadows will fall behind you.” ―Walt Whitman

“What defines us is how well we rise after falling.” ―Lionel from the movie Maid in Manhattan

 A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” ―Sonia Sotomayer

The best way to predict your future is to create it.” ―Abraham Lincoln

“Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” ―G.K. Nielson

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” ―Sam Levenson

“You can’t have a million dollar dream on a minimum wage work ethic.” ―Unknown

Don’t tell everyone your plans, instead show them your results.” ―Unknown

“I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” ―Louise Hay

“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” ―Maya Angelou

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” ―Steve Martin

“Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.” ―Hillary Clinton

“This is a reminder to you to create your own rule book, and live your life the way you want it.” ―Reese Evans

“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” ―Angelina Jolie

Do the best you can. No one can do more than that.” ―John Wooden

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ―Theodore Roosevelt

‘It’s never too late to be what you might’ve been.” ―George Eliot

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” ―Walt Disney

“Trust yourself that you can do it and get it.” ―Baz Luhrmann

“Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.” ―Unknown

“You can do anything you set your mind to.” ―Benjamin Franklin

“All we can do is the best we can do.” ―David Axelrod

“You never know what you can do until you try.” ―William Cobbett

“Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did.” ―Mark Twain

In three words I can sum up everything

Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” —Isabelle Lafleche

“Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.” —Elon Musk

“Hold the vision, trust the process.” —Unknown

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” —John D. Rockefeller

“People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.” —Unknown

The hard days are what make you stronger.” ―Aly Raisman 💚


“H.O.P.E. = Hold On. Pain Ends.” —

“Make each day your masterpiece.” ―John Wooden

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” ―Confucius

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ―Oprah Winfrey

“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” ―Helen Keller

“Begin anywhere.” ―John Cage

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” ―Katharine Hepburn

“You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.” ―Herb Brooks

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Thursday, July 25, 2024

 The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.--James Russell Lowell

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.--Aristotle 

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.--Ed Cunningham 

Friends, books, a cheerful heart, and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here.--William Mather 

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil--but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often--just to save it from drying out completely.--Pam Brown 

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.--Swedish proverb 

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.--George Washington 

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."-—C. S. Lewis 

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.--Samuel Butler 

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.--John Evelyn 

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.--Woodrow Wilson 

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.--C. S. Lewis 

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.--Barbara Tuchman 

Friendships multiply joys and divide grief.--Thomas Fuller



 Enough! It's time to grow up. If we want to play adult games--living our Dream--we must play by adult rules. One of the primary adult rules: We are individually responsible for our own lives.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts) 

Even if you can't just snap your fingers and make a dream come true, you can travel in the direction of your dream, every single day and you can shorten the distance between the two of you.--Douglas Pagels 

Every dreamer works in violent disagreement with their times.--Conway Stone 

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.--Harriet Tubman 

The excitement, the true excitement, was always in starting again. Nothing's worse than an accomplished task, a realized dream.--Marilyn Harris 

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.--Louisa May Alcott

Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become.--Anonymous 

For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.--Lois Wyse (Far From Innocence) 

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.--Leonard da Vinci 

The frontiers of our dreams always converge with reality.--Gerd De Ley 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.--Eleanor Roosevelt 

Great things are done by people who think great thoughts and then go out into the world to make their dreams come true.--Ernest Holmes

Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more goodness, wisdom, and love in the world than men imagine.--Gehles 

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.--Aldous Huxley (Reader's Digest, March 1956) 

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.--Oscar Wilde 

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.--Oscar Wilde 

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.--Franklin P. Jones 

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.--Elbert Hubbard 

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.--Katherine Anne Porter ("St. Augustine and the Bullfight" The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter) 

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.--Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture) 

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.--Dan Stanford 

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself--in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.--Elizabeth Bowen (The Death of the Heart) 

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.--Immanuel Kant 

Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.--Konrad Adenauer 

Good judgment is usually the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment. But to learn from the experience of others requires those who have the experience to share the knowledge with those who follow.--Barry LePatner (To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design) 

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.--Joseph Campbell 

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.--Patrick Henry 

I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.--Ann Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea) 

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires.--Abigail Van Buren

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.--Henry Ford