Quotes - Ray Palen (rpalen) (Clermont, FL) Showing 1-30 of 73

#1

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness

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#2

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: inspirational, wonder

4735 likes

#3

“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

tags: discipline, freedom

1635 likes

#4

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: encouragement, gandalf

11333 likes

#5

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

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#6

“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
― Joni Mitchell

1350 likes

#7

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
― Selma Lagerlöf

2432 likes

#8

“Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”
― Charles Lamb

tags: new-years

1032 likes

#9

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

8125 likes

#10

“Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
― William Congreve

1433 likes

#11

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

tags: labels, names

2847 likes

#12

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11245 likes

#13

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

3617 likes

#14

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne

2692 likes

#15

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

4957 likes

#16

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak

3053 likes

#17

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

3757 likes

#18

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
― Walt Whitman

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#19

“Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment.”
― Colleen McCullough, Caesar

1168 likes

#20

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

3062 likes

#21

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength

4206 likes

#22

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

2628 likes

#23

“Lift every voice and sing.”
― James Weldon Johnson

1082 likes

#24

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance

4454 likes

#25

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

tags: civil-rights

2764 likes

#26

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

tags: travel

4020 likes

#27

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

4357 likes

#28

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

tags: facts, knowledge

2287 likes

#29

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

2114 likes

#30

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

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