Archive for the ‘Today's Quote’ Category
David on September 5th, 2010
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
— Henry Miller (1891-1980)
David on August 16th, 2010
“I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.”
– William Stafford (1914-1993)
David on August 15th, 2010
Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”
–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), Morituri Salutamus
David on August 14th, 2010
“Doing so is consistent with California’s long history of treating all people and their relationships with equal dignity and respect.”
– California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), in his filing that recommended same sex marriages be immediately allowed in the State of California following Judge Vaughan Walker’s ruling on August 12, 2010 that voter-approved Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equality and due process under law.
David on June 3rd, 2010
“Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.”
– Rue McClanahan, who passed away today, 6/3/10, at the age of 76
David on June 2nd, 2010
“We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate — thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.”
– Maya Angelou (B. 1928)
David on May 22nd, 2010
“Hope will never be silent”
– Harvey Milk (1930-1978)
In Honor of Harvey Milk Day, May 22, 2010
David on May 16th, 2010
I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.”
– Woody Allen (B. 1935)
David on May 12th, 2010
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.”
– Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
David on May 10th, 2010
“It’s not the load the breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
– Lena Horne, who passed away on 5/9/10 at the age of 92
David on May 8th, 2010
“Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.”
– Robert Frost (1874-1963)
David on April 7th, 2010
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”
–Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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David on April 5th, 2010
“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.”
– Alan Alda (B. 1936)
David on March 27th, 2010
“There’s a wind behind evey one of us that take us through our lives
We never see it
We can’t command it
We don’t even know its purpose
I would have stayed among you longer
but that wind has taken me away
I will miss it here
And I will miss you
But I am content that the power that propels me
does so with superior knowledge as to what is for the best
and that is my faith.”
–Father Brendan Flynn (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman), in Doubt, 2008 (Written and Directed by John Patrick Shanley, based on his play), Miramax Films
David on March 27th, 2010
“Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.”
– Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)
David on March 26th, 2010
“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.”
— Cesar Chavez (1927-1993)
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David on March 20th, 2010
“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.”
– Reinhold Niehbur (1892-1971)
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David on March 11th, 2010
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”
– Melody Beattie
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David on March 5th, 2010
“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 (1820-1913)
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David on March 5th, 2010
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)
David on March 4th, 2010
“All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.”
–Robert Kennedy (1925-1968)
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David on March 3rd, 2010
“Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.”
– Jesse Jackson (B.1941)
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David on March 2nd, 2010
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
– W. Somerset Maugham
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David on February 28th, 2010
“There’s always hope.”
–Aragorn (played by Viggo Mortensen), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), Written by Fran Walsh, Phillipa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, and Peter Jackson; Directed by Peter Jackson
David on February 27th, 2010
“A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.”
– Winnie the Pooh
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David on February 26th, 2010
“Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.”
–Marie Louise De La Ramee (1839-1908)
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David on February 23rd, 2010
“My darling, I’m waiting for you.
How long is a day in the dark?
Or a week?
The fire is gone now and I am horribly cold.
I really ought to drag myself outside, but then there would be the sun.
I’m afraid I waste the light;
And the paintings and am writing these words.
We die.
We die rich with lovers and tribes,
tastes we have swallowed,
bodies we have entered and swum up like rivers,
fears we have hidden in, like this wretched cave.
I want all this marked on my body.
We’re the real countries, not the boundaires drawn on maps;
the names of powerful men.
I know you’ll come and carry me out into the Palace of Winds.
That’s what I’ve wanted; to walk in such a place with you,
with friends, and Earth without maps.
The lamp’s gone out,and I’m writing in the darkness.”
– Katharine Clifton, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, “The English Patient,” 1996, Miramax Films, Written and Directed by Anthony Minghella (1954-2008)
David on February 22nd, 2010
“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”
– Hannibal Lechter, played by Anthony Hopkins, “Silence of the Lambs,” 1991, Orion Pictures (Directed by Jonathan Demme; Screenplay by Ted Tally)
To read more about the 2010 USA Census, go to the official USA Census website by clicking here.
David on February 22nd, 2010
“Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.”
–W.C. Fields (1880-1946)
David on February 20th, 2010
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
– Paracelsus (1493-1541)
David on February 19th, 2010
“Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”
–Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)
David on February 18th, 2010
“For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.”
– Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009)
David on February 16th, 2010
“When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.”
–Bob Hope (1903-2003)
David on February 15th, 2010
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
David on February 14th, 2010
“Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
–Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Happy Valentine’s Day!
David on February 11th, 2010
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
– Steve Jobs (B. 1955)
David on February 10th, 2010
“The best portion of a good man’s life– his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
– William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
David on February 9th, 2010
“To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face;
to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains;
to approach my work with a clean mind;
to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things,
the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working;
to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart;
to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours;
to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep
and the joy that comes from work well done– this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.”
– Thomas Dekker (1572-1632)
David on February 8th, 2010
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
– Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
David on February 7th, 2010
“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things- with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.”
– Corazon Aquino (1933-2009)
David on February 6th, 2010
“The past is a ghost, the future is a dream, and all we ever have is now.”
–Bill Cosby (B. 1937)
David on February 4th, 2010
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
– Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
David on February 4th, 2010
“Whatcha got ain’t nothin new. This country’s hard on people, you can’t stop what’s coming, it ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.”
–Ellis, played by Barry Corbin, to Llewelyn Moss, played by Josh Brolin, in “No Country for Old Men,” directed by Joel and Ethan Coen (1977), Paramount Pictures
“No Country for Old Men” is included in my list of TOP 10 FAVORITE MOVIES, which you can read by clicking here.
David on February 4th, 2010
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
– Nelson Mandela (B. 1918)
David on February 3rd, 2010
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
– Isak Dinesen (aka Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke), (1885-1962)
David on February 2nd, 2010
“No matter how I look at the issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.”
– Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen (B. 1946), 2/2/10, speaking before a Senate panel urging the lifting of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” USA armed forces policy.
David on February 2nd, 2010
“All men should strive
to learn before they die
what they are running from, and to, and why.”
–James Thurber (1894-1961)
David on January 31st, 2010
“It’s toughest to forgive ourselves. So it’s probably best to start with other people. It’s almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.”
— Patty Duke (B. 1946)
David on January 30th, 2010
“The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real estate, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.”
– Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
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David on January 29th, 2010
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
– Dalai Lama (B. 1935)
David on January 28th, 2010
“I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas.”
– President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)
David on January 26th, 2010
“Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.”
— John Muir (1838-1914)
David on January 25th, 2010
“”We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.”
–Jeremy Irons (B. 1948)
David on January 24th, 2010
“Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.”
— Bob Dylan (B. 1941)
David on January 23rd, 2010
“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.”
–Jonathan Larson, Composer and Playwright, “Rent” (1960-1996)
David on January 14th, 2010
“Experience is not what happens to a man: it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
–Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
David on January 13th, 2010
“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
–George Sand (aka Aurore Lucile Dupin) (1804-1876)
David on January 12th, 2010
“Do not forget small kindnesses and do not remember small faults.”
–Chinese Proverb
David on January 11th, 2010
“To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.”
–William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
David on January 9th, 2010
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”
–Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
David on January 7th, 2010
“Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.”
–Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
David on January 6th, 2010
“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
–Sydney Smith (1771-1845)
David on January 5th, 2010
“Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.”
–Henry Miller (1891-1980)
David on January 3rd, 2010
“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate The world is all gates, all opportunities.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
David on January 2nd, 2010
“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
–Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
