A few of my favourite motivational quotes
““Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.”
~ Anne Lamott

“It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turn obstacles into opportunities.”
~ Eric Hoffer

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy..”
~ Dale Carnegie

“When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”
~ Katherine Mansfield

“You must be careful how you walk and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.”
~ Robert E. Lee

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
~ Thomas Jefferson

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”
~ Carl Jung

“We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.”
~ Etty Hillesum

My favourite Quote:
“Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.”
~ Epictetus

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Yesterday I asked myself a rhetorical question and I have the answer, at least for me:

“The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.”
~ George Eliot

“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.”
~ Dale Carnegie

“If you treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
~ Chinese Proverb

“You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.”
~ Shira Tehrani

“There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it’s a good idea to perform it as well as possible.”
~ Humphrey Osmond

“It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
~ Aristotle

“Self-love is the only weight-loss aid that really works in the long run.”
~ Jenny Craig

“Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.”
~ Sarah Bernhardt

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be.”
~ Groucho Marx

“Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting and move on..”
~ Norman Vincent Peale

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Today’s Quotable Sunday Theme is Tolerance!
“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.”
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

“Monsieur l’abbe, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.”
~ Voltaire

“How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.”
~ George Washington Carver

“What is tolerance? — it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly — that is the first law of nature.”
~ Voltaire

“The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.”
~ Eric Hoffer

“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.”
~ Voltaire

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Another Random Quotable Sunday

“Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible — not to have run away.”
~ Dag Hammarskjöld

“Experience is not what happens to you. It’s what you do with what happens to you.”
~ Aldous Huxley

“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
~ Mark Twain

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
~ Samuel Johnson

“Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.”
~ Henry James

“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness…never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
~ Lord Chesterfield

“Polonius: This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
~ Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet

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More Random Quotes For Quotable Sunday

“Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.”
~ Erica Jong

“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.”
~ Margaret Cho

“We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other.”
~ Luciano Decrescenzo

“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.”
~ Henry Miller

“I have accepted fear as a part of life, specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: Turn back, turn back; you’ll die if you venture too far.”
~ Erica Jong

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Random Quotes this Sunday is my “theme” for this week’s Quotable Sunday

“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.”
~ Henry David Thoreau

“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.”
~ Linus Pauling

“Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.”
~ Isak Dinesen

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
~ George Orwell

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
~ T.S. Eliot

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
~ Marcel Proust

“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
~ John Ruskin

And my favourite quote this week:

“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
~ Abraham Lincoln

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Happy Father’s Day!
“He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
~ Clarence Budington Kelland

“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.”
~ Confucius

“A wise son maketh a glad father“
~ Proverbs 10:1

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher

“It is not flesh and blood but the heart, which makes us fathers and sons.”
~ Johann Schiller

“Father! – to God himself we cannot give a holier name.”
~William Wordsworth

“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”
~ Ruth E. Renkel

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Happy Anniversary to my beloved husband! Today is our 18th Wedding Anniversary, so I chose love quotes for today’s Quotable Sunday

“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert Heinlein

“Love is the only gold.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.”
Karen Sunde

“The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.”
Hugh Walpole, Sr.

“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.”
Vincent van Gogh

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
Dr. Seuss

““If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Herman Hesse

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I could not decide upon a specific topic, rather I decided to post some quotes by W.H. Auden for today’s Quotable Sunday

“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can: all of them can make me laugh.”

“But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
‘O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.”

“All that we are not stares back at what we are.”

“Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.”

“In headaches and in worry
Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
To-morrow or to-day.”

“Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.”

“We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.”

“He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.”

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