DAILY QUOTATIONS
I have made writing down a quotation part of my daily journal in the AM. I used Google or Brainy Quotes and look up a topic or an author or artist I admire. Here is a collection of recent ones.
To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
BUDDHA
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
LAO TZU
Music is only love looking for words.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Trust you own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.
BILLY WILDER
Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.
WARREN BUFFETT
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
NATALIE GOLDBERG
The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of The Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.
JAMES LEE BURKE
Images proliferate. Am I wrong in being reminded of printing money in a period of wild inflation? Do we know what we are doing? Are we able to evaluate what we have done?
WRIGHT MORRIS
It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens.
GILLIAN MICHAELS
The more important a call to action is to our soul’s evolution, the more resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow and retell it in words and in touch that it is lovely until it flowers again from within.
GALWAY KINNELL
Exercise should be regarded as a tribute to the heart.
GENE TUNNEY
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
BETTY FRIEDAN
Well done is better than well said.
UNKNOWN
The objective of cleaning is not just to clean but to feel happiness living within that environment.
MARIE KONDO
A lack of boundaries invites a lack of respect.
UNKNOWN
Like I said, basements usually smell like surrealism but gardens almost always smell like impressionism.
EMIL FERRIS, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
The banh mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.
CALVIN TRILLIN
I sustain myself with the love of family.
MAYA ANGELOU
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
DESMOND TUTU
You can’t use up creativity, the more you use, the more you have.
MAYA ANGELOU
When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.
JOHN PAUL SARTRE
I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness, and resentment, it blocks the flows of God’s blessings in life.
JA RULE
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
MOTHER THERESA
You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.
LYNDA BARRY
No {person} was every wise by chance.
SENECA
