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Post by ZandraJoi on Jul 25, 2020 9:00:04 GMT -5
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke (may be paraphrased) Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.- Edmund Burke We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.- Albert Einstein Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.- Aldous Huxley Whenever one person stands up and says, 'Wait a minute, this is wrong,' it helps other people to do the same.- Gloria Steinem If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.- Zig Ziglar You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequences of your choice.- Unknown Life is like Tetris. The mistakes seem to pile up, while the successes disappear.- Unknown It is easy enough to restrain our anger when the other guy is bigger.- Unknown
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Post by ZandraJoi on Jul 29, 2020 11:32:31 GMT -5
Why is it that people who make the best of things seldom try to make them any better?- Unknown Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.- Pythagoras (Greek Mathematician 582 BCE - 497 BCE) When you take responsibility on your shoulders there is not much room left for chips.- Unknown Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans.- Unknown You shouldn’t use the theory that it’s impossible to help everyone as an argument for never offering to help somebody else.- Unknown
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Post by ZandraJoi on Jul 31, 2020 9:42:39 GMT -5
Waiting until everything is perfect before making a move is like waiting to start a trip until all the traffic lights are green.- Unknown We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.- Howard Zinn Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can’t accept your imperfections, that’s their fault.- David D. Burns
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Post by ZandraJoi on Aug 2, 2020 12:00:53 GMT -5
You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.- Mahatma Gandhi Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.– Goethe To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.- Anatole France (April 16 1844 – October 12 1924, French poet, journalist, and novelist) It is never too late to be what you might have been.- George Eliot It's easier to get free WiFi than it is to get free water and people act like nothing is wrong with the world.- Unknown I also came to realize that if people could make me angry they could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?– Ben Carson (born in Detroit, Michigan, on September 18, 1951. His mother, though undereducated herself, pushed her sons to read and to believe in themselves. Carson went from being a poor student to receiving honors and he eventually attended medical school. As a doctor, he became the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital at age 33, and became famous for his ground-breaking work separating conjoined twins.) You can’t forget where you came from to know where you are going.- Cesar Milan The real story Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can’t accept your imperfections, that’s their fault.- Dr. David Burns May I have the courage today, To live the life that I would love, To postpone my dream no longer, But do at last what I came here for, And waste my heart on fear no more.- John O'Donohue You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.- Abraham Maslow Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.- Will Rodgers It doesn’t do any good to sit up & take notice if you keep on sitting.- Unknown
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Post by ZandraJoi on Aug 9, 2020 11:27:18 GMT -5
Cheers to all the folks who do their own research. In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.- Unknown The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.- John Ruskin Between stimulus & response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth & our freedom.- Viktor Frankl (Auschwitz survivor)
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Post by ZandraJoi on Aug 16, 2020 20:18:27 GMT -5
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.- Antisthenes Courage isn't having the strength to go on- it's going on when you don't have the strength.- Napoleon Bonaparte or Teddy Roosevelt Keep changing. When you're through changing, you're through.- Bruce Barton A successful person is one who can put down a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.- David Brinkley There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.- Orison Swett Marden (1850 – 1924)
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Post by ZandraJoi on Sept 28, 2020 20:06:14 GMT -5
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.- Mary Wilson Little Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.- Rumi
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Post by ZandraJoi on Nov 10, 2020 9:18:29 GMT -5
When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.- Otto von Bismarck Failure always catches up with those who sit down and wait for success.- Unknown When waiting for one thing to happen, don't just sit around waiting, begin a second project & forget about the other one.- Unknown Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.- François de La Rochefoucauld
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Post by ZandraJoi on Apr 10, 2021 20:07:41 GMT -5
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.- Ralph Waldo Emerson Consider how hard it is to change yourself & you’ll understand what little chance you have trying to change others.- Jacob M. Braude It is much better to wear out than to rust out.- Richard Cumberland After all is said & done, more is said than done.- Aesop My philosophy of life is: deal with your problems, try to overcome them, try to be a better person than you were the day before.- Unknown
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Post by ZandraJoi on May 1, 2021 10:30:17 GMT -5
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.- Benjamin Franklin It wouldn't hurt so much to be angry except that, for some reason, anger makes your mouth work faster than your mind.- Unknown Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.- Unknown
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Post by ZandraJoi on May 11, 2021 20:20:12 GMT -5
If we could regard the events of our own lives with more open minds, we would frequently discover that we did not really desire the things we failed to obtain.- Unknown Sometimes the best help a conscience can get is cold feet.- Unknown The trouble with opportunity is that it usually knocks when you’re too busy to open the door.- Unknown If I can personally make life a little better for myself & those around me, I shall; but I firmly refuse to worry about the things I cannot change.- Unknown Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Post by ZandraJoi on May 19, 2021 20:13:45 GMT -5
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.- Alexander Graham Bell Worry reminds us of a treadmill: it can wear you to a frazzle, & you still don’t get anywhere.- Unknown How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway… And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!- Anne Frank Skepticism & realism are not the same as cynicism & pessimism.- Unknown
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Post by ZandraJoi on Jun 12, 2021 20:26:17 GMT -5
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.- William Arthur Ward Skepticism is the first step toward truth.- Denis Diderot Trust that still, small voice that says, This might work and I'll try it.- Diane Mariechild A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to do something.- Unknown Circumstance may prevent you from building a fortune, but they have no power to prevent you from building character.- Unknown
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Post by ZandraJoi on Jun 22, 2021 10:04:36 GMT -5
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.- Immanuel Kant (German philosopher 1724-1804) Re-examine all you have been told… Dismiss whatever insults your soul.- Walt Whitman The optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; the pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.- Winston Churchill Everything is changing so fast these days that even nostalgia is not what it used to be.- Unknown
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Post by ZandraJoi on Oct 24, 2021 9:31:10 GMT -5
If your foot slips you may recover your balance, but if your tongue slips, you cannot recall your words.- Martin Vanbee (& other authors) Some people will only love you as long as you fit in their box. Don’t be afraid to disappoint.- Unknown The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.- Eckhart Tolle
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Post by ZandraJoi on Feb 19, 2022 12:12:02 GMT -5
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.- Maya Angelou May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.- Nelson Mandela When we are on a good path, we don't feel the need to put others down. Where there is peace and kindness, there is no desire to compare or condemn.- Dr. Ben Kim
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Post by dfarmer2001 on Mar 5, 2022 20:28:04 GMT -5
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.- Maya Angelou May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.- Nelson Mandela When we are on a good path, we don't feel the need to put others down. Where there is peace and kindness, there is no desire to compare or condemn.- Dr. Ben Kim I really enjoy that first quote by Maya Angelou. This is basically how I live my life on a day to day basis. I don't spend my time trying to share my accomplishments or tell people how great I am, I know some people who do this. However, it is in my belief that I need to treat others how I would want to be treated. If I treat them good, not only will they remember it, but I believe if I ever needed someone to help me, I would receive the help I need whether it be from someone I've previously helped or someone else. Thank you for sharing these quotes ZandraJoi!
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Post by ZandraJoi on Mar 9, 2022 12:52:44 GMT -5
I really enjoy that first quote by Maya Angelou. This is basically how I live my life on a day to day basis. I don't spend my time trying to share my accomplishments or tell people how great I am, I know some people who do this. However, it is in my belief that I need to treat others how I would want to be treated. If I treat them good, not only will they remember it, but I believe if I ever needed someone to help me, I would receive the help I need whether it be from someone I've previously helped or someone else. Thank you for sharing these quotes ZandraJoi! You're very welcome & I'm glad they touched you I too believe that if I needed some help, I'll have others help me as I have helped them. It's just a nice feeling!
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Post by ZandraJoi on Jul 30, 2022 20:42:29 GMT -5
When a man hasn’t a good reason for doing a thing, he has a good reason for letting it alone.- Sir Walter Scott I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.- Stephen Leacock Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.- Seneca the Younger Criticize the act not the person.- Mary Kay Ash In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.- Henri Nouwen
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Post by ZandraJoi on Dec 5, 2022 21:20:04 GMT -5
The happiest people I know are always evaluating & improving themselves. The unhappy people are usually evaluating & judging others.– Lisa Villa Prosen If you allow people to make more withdrawals than deposits in your life. You will be out of balance & in the negative. Know when to close the account.- Oscar Auliq-Ice My notes: Love this quote! Anybody stuck with people so they wouldn't be alone? I used to. I figured a bad 'friend' was better than no friends. Now though, I rather be alone & have less toxicity in my life.
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Post by ZandraJoi on Jan 2, 2024 20:45:42 GMT -5
Your value doesn't decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth. Never let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.- Zig Ziglar Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.- Robert Brault When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.- Chris Colfer If you're not sure about someone, remember that how they consistently behave is far more important than what they say. Your time on planet earth is your greatest gift. Don't waste any more of it with people who don't cherish you with their behaviour. People don't generally change deep within. If they don't adore, like, or respect you right now, don't wait and hope for them to adore, like, or respect you later.- Unknown (Ben Kim’s newsletter)
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