"My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing."  --Osip Mandelstam

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living."  --Gail Sheehy 

"The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality."  --Conan O'Brien

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."  --Charlie Chaplin

"The best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else."  --Booker T. Washington

"One of the most severe types of injustice is when the oppressor plays the role of the victim and accuses the oppressed of being unjust"  --David Hilbert

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."  --Victor Hugo

"Man is indestructible because of his simple will to freedom."  --William Faulkner

"The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention."  --Sharon Salzberg

"Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier."  --Bruce Lee

"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."  --Flannery O'Connor

"Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind."  --James Baldwin

"All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die.”  --John Steinbeck

"Live, and be happy, and make others so."  --Mary Shelley

"A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope."  --Neil Gaiman

"I know there’s a proverb which says “To err is human,” but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries."  --Agatha Christie

"‘There is always a brave new world,’ said Poirot, ‘but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves.’"  --Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

"Happiness never decreases by being shared"  --Gautama Buddha

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."  --Stevie Wonder

"Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it."  --Lucy Maud Montgomery

"We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves."  --Patti Smith

"Perhaps the greatest test of love is the way we act in times of need."  --Suleika Jaouad

"It always seems impossible until it's done."  --Nelson Mandela

"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."  --Elbert Hubbard

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.”  --George Bernard Shaw

"Why do believers tell you their God will damn you to hell, yet in the same breath insist that He loves you unconditionally?"  --John C. Wathey

"Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures."  --H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it."  --Emery Lord

"Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else."  --Fred Rogers

"Mister Rogers’ wisdom always felt like a comforting, validating hug. In this quote — similar to the familiar phrase “when one door closes, another opens” — he ruminates on beginnings and endings. When it feels like one chapter or phase of life is coming to a close, it’s often an indication that a new chapter is about to unfold. Instead of fixating on finality, we should view endings as opportunities for fresh beginnings, new experiences, growth, and discovery. Rogers’ words serve as an optimistic reminder to approach life’s transitions with hope and openness, recognizing that each ending carries within it the seeds of a new beginning."  --Inspiring Quotes Sunday, August 27, 2023

"You have to have confidence in your vision or else no one else will trust in it."  --Mary Katrantzou

"We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share."  --Rania Al-Abdullah

"Rania Al-Abdullah, the wife of King Abdullah II, has served as the queen of Jordan for more than 20 years, and in that time she has been a champion for her people as well as several humanitarian causes around the world. In her efforts to promote global education, the rights of women and children, community empowerment, and cultural understanding, she reminds us that we are always better together. When we can engage in respectful dialogue, free to share our thoughts, feelings, and stories, everyone benefits."  ---Inspiring Quotes Thursday, August 24, 2023

"You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness."  --Brené Brown

 "The ultimate luxury in life remains nature."  --Robert Rabensteiner

"Ultimately, art is trying to see things that other people don't see."  --Trevor Paglen

"If your heart’s attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it."  --Vera Wang

"It is the fate of many famous women to be known primarily for the tragedies in their lives, rather than for their lightness. Artist Frida Kahlo is often thought of in the context of her lifelong health travails and her torrid, sometimes violent romance with another larger-than-life Mexican painter, Diego Rivera. But, fiercely optimistic, Kahlo surrounded herself with beauty and brilliance — not only in the art for which she is so well known, but also in life. She had numerous friends and lovers. She painted her home a bright cobalt blue and called it Casa Azul. (Poet Carlos Pellicer said “the house … seems to lodge a bit of heaven.”) And she was deeply committed to social justice. “I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution,” she said. That was, for her, 'the only real reason for living.'"  --Inspiring Quotes Saturday, July 29, 2023

"Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light."  --Frida Kahlo

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."  --Marthe Troly-Curtin

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."  --Henry David Thoreau

“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”  --J. Robert Oppenheimer

"Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.”  --Anatoli Boukreev

"Go without hate, but not without rage; heal the world."  --Paul Monette

“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain. Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight, it is sublime too, whether this cause of terror be endued with greatness of dimensions or not; for it is impossible to look on anything as trifling, or contemptible, that may be dangerous. There are many animals, who though far from being large, are yet capable of raising ideas of the sublime, because they are considered as objects of terror. As serpents and poisonous animals of almost all kinds. And to things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. […] Indeed, terror is in all cases whatsoever, either more openly or latently, the ruling principle of the sublime.”  -- Edmund Burke

"You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do not bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear."  --Victor Hugo 1845 essay "Villemain" 

"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life." Paraphrase of Hugo. Never said by Churchill.

"What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly."  --Carl Rogers

"Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful."  --Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, London, beginning of January 1874

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."  --Anne Lamott 

"The highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them."  --John F. Kennedy

"Happiness is not a goal, it’s a by-product.  --Eleanor Roosevelt 

 "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.  --Søren Kierkegaard

"The theologian and philosopher Søren Kierkegaard is widely considered to be the creator of existentialism. His studies led him to the idea that reflecting on our past and learning from previous experiences helps us understand our place in the world. Still, life must not be lived in the past. This quote warns us not to dwell on past regret or resentment. We have to let go in order to move forward — which is the only direction life can go."

Inspiring Quotes

"We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy of success."  --Jamie Lee Curtis

"Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort."  --Fred Rogers

"You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself."  --John Steinbeck

"True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence." - Isabel Allende

 "Be mindful of whose lyrics you craft your life by."  --Aaron Moorhead's Dad

[Filmmaker along with Justin Benson of Spring, Resolution, The Endless, Synchronic, and Something in the Dirt]

“What has been can then never not have been: this mysterious and profoundly obscure mystery of having lived will henceforth accompany it for eternity.” -- Vladimir Jankélévitch, Irreversibility and Nostalgia

"Please, don’t worry so much, because in the end, none of us have very long on this earth — life is fleeting. And if you’re ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night, and when a shooting star streaks through the blackness turning night into day, make a wish and think of me. Make your life spectacular. I know I did."  --Robin Williams from the movie "Jack"