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Category Archives: Quotes I Love
“I will die in the midst of doing what I love to do…”
“I will die in the midst of doing what I love to do and that is using my voice and using my life to try to inspire other people to live the best of theirs.” –Oprah Winfrey As an investment … Continue reading
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An Infinite Succession of Presents
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. “What we choose to emphasize in … Continue reading
Posted in Courage, LIfe Lessons, Quotes I Love
Tagged act, capacity to do something, choose to emphasize, compassion, complex history, courage, cruelty, foolishly romantic, hopeful, Howard Zinn, kindness, marvelous, marvelous victory, people have behaved magnificently, romantic, sacrifice, spinning top of a world, tthe future is an infinite succession of presents, victory, Wisdom Quotes
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“Expressing the Inexpressible”
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” – Aldous Huxley A friend who has music as a primary passion in his life posted this on Facebook. It is certainly true for him, and I suspect, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, desire, excite, expressing the inexpressible, Life, moment, move, music, need, passion, primary, primary passion, relax, Romance, romance you, silence, you
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Speak Softly and Carry a Big Heart
(Below is a re-post of one of my earliest postings to this blog from back in mid-2010. I’ll occassionally re-post something to give newer followers an opportunity to see it without having to wade through many old posts to find … Continue reading
Posted in Friendship, LIfe Lessons, Quotes I Love, Random Thoughts
Tagged death, Friend, heart, impish grin, legacy of love, Life, live, lived large, living large, Love, Mel, mustache, passed away, speak, speak softly and carry a big heart, students, surf, surfer, tutored
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Follow Your Own Heart
“Follow your own heart, regardless of what others tell you to do. When all is said and done, it’s you who has to live with your decisions and how your heart feels about it.” I don’t know who originated that … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, decisions, Feel, feels, follow, follow your heart, follow your own heart, heart, Life, regret, resentment, reward, rewarding, sadness, wisdom
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Your Potential
“You are an ocean of knowledge hidden in a dew drop.” –Rumi
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Tagged dew drop, hidden, hidden in a dew drop, knowledge, ocean of knowledge, potential, Rumi, wondered, you
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Remember Why You’re Holding On
“The moment you think about giving up, think of the reason you held out so long.” –Michele Serens Mann Sounds like good advice to me! Storms eventually end if you hang in there long enough. In the darkest nights and … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, attitude, beginnings, brutal, brutal storms, challenge, chang of view, change of attitude, dark, darkest nights, eluded, give up, giving up, good, good advice, hang, hang tough, held on, held out so long, hing in there, hold on, holding on, in front of me, inspired, inspired by memories, light, long time, Michele Serens Mann, moment, new, new days, problem, puzzle, reason, Relationship, simple, simple change, situation, skin, solutions, sounds, storms, sun, think, time, view, warmth, warmth of the sun, you
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Much More Than A Pile Of Rocks
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery MaggieMaeIJustSayThis shared ths quote. I like it and thought you would too. I … Continue reading
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