Quotable Quotes 8

[desiderata]

"We do not write to be understood; we write in order to understand."

~ Cecil Day Lewis

 

[Daniel E.]

Creative minds have been known to overcome even the worst programming. ~ Anna Freud

“As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.” ~ Andy Warhol

 

[desiderata]

" He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."

~ George Savile

 

[Daniel E.]

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

 

[desiderata]

" It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
~ Henry David Thoreau

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used." ~ Richard E. Byrd

 

[Daniel E.]

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

-- Theodore Roosevelt

 

[desiderata]

"The unexamined life is not worth living." ~ Socrates

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it." ~ Steven Pressfield

 

[Andy]

"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear." ~ Dick Cavett

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[Daniel E.]

Every thought takes you somewhere. Choose thoughts that take you where you want to go. ~ Alan Cohen

“Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.” ~ William James

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

 

[Retired]

Re: Quotable Quotes 7

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden,

Former UCLA Basketball Coach

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us." ~ Joseph Campbell

 

[desiderata]

"If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything."

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places." ~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

 

[HBas]

The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering... is because you won't stop listening to it!
- Guy Finley

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life." ~ Anaïs Nin

 

[David Baxter PhD]

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death." ~ Anaïs Nin

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." ~ Anaïs Nin

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." ~ Anaïs Nin

 

[HBas]

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
Yoko Ono ​