Quotes As Friends

Thought you might be interested in seeing some of the results of the buddy-to-self tasks I gave myself on Friday.  Here’s the current list of quotes I keep on hand that always motivate me to sit up, rethink, fly a little higher.  I’d love to have an uneven 31, so feel free to add your faves in the comments.

Straight Talk

If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. — Anita Roddick

Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. — Doris Mortman

An idea is salvation by imagination. –  Frank Lloyd Wright

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. – Frank Capra

Thoughts are energy, and you can make your world or break your world by your thinking. — Susan L. Taylor (American Journalist)

I have a simple philosophy.  Fill what’s empty.  Empty what’s full. And scratch where it itches. –  Alice Roosevelt Longworth. (Teddy’s mom.)

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash

Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience. — Anna Quindlen

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” — Mary Anne Radmacher

…People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.  — Maya Angelou

Proverbs

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel first. – Arab Proverb

Firelight will not let you read fine stories, but it’s warm and you won’t see the dust on the floor. – Irish Proverb

A Little More Lofty

I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken — and to know a truth.  — Eudora Welty.

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. — Ursula K. LeGuin

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. – Oscar Wilde

Look closely, the beautiful may be small. – Emmanuel Kant

Joseph Campbell

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Best of the Best

I haven’t failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work. — Thomas Edison

Inspiration exists but it has to find us working. – Pablo Picasso

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. – William Shakespeare

Don’t die guessing. — Brooke Astor, quoting her mother

And finally, the one that gives me goosebumps….One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. — Cervantes,  Don Quixote de la Mancha

I’d like this last one on my urn, please.