Quotable Quotes 11

[Daniel E.]

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

~ Martin Luther King

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." ~ Rod Serling

 

[Daniel E.]

"Every person's map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint. There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence the same way... So in dealing with people, you try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be."

~ Milton Erickson (1901-1980)



“It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”

— Bruce Lee

“My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.”

— Bill Gates

 

[Daniel E.]

"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."

- Anne Frank

 

[David Baxter PhD]

“People are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.” ~ Deepak Chopra

 

[Daniel E.]

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

~ Deepak Chopra

 

[Daniel E.]

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

— George Lois

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do." ~ Brené Brown

 

[Daniel E.]

“If we pick up a brush, we feel like writing; if we hold a musical instrument in our hands, we wish to play.”

-- Yoshida Kenko, Essays in Idleness

 

[Daniel E.]

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

[Daniel E.]

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."

~ Wayne Dyer

 

[Daniel E.]

“Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.”

“Things don’t have to change the world to be important.”

“My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”

~ Steve Jobs

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." ~ C.S. Lewis

 

[Daniel E.]

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”

~ C.S. Lewis

 

[Daniel E.]

"If my aim is to prove I am 'enough', the project goes on to infinity—because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable."

― Nathaniel Branden, The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

“Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.”

― Nathaniel Branden, How to Raise Your Self-Esteem

 

[Daniel E.]

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

"Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without courage, you cannot practice any of the other virtues consistently."

~ Maya Angelou


"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."

~ Dr. Seuss

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid." ~ Albert Einstein

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free." ~ Robert Tew

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry." ~ Dalai Lama

 

[Daniel E.]

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

- Hal Borland