Quotes

I love quotes – I collect them.  I feel inspired and motivated by them as no matter where I am in life I can always find meaning and make meaning that is just right for me at this time.  I hope you enjoy these as much as I do and that they inspire you as they have done me and will continue to do for years to come.
 
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.  Walt Disney


Don’t listen to friends when the Friend inside you says “Do this.”  Gandhi


The words of grace are always blowing, but it is you that must raise the flags. 
Rabindranath Tagove


Great dancers are not good because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.  Martha Graham


Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.  Goethe


There is a vitality, a life focus, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.  Martha Graham


If a woman told us she loved flowers, and we saw that she forgot to water them, we would not believe in her ‘love’ for the flowers.  Love is the active concern for the life and growth of that which we love.  Erich Fromm.  The Art of Living


You will find as you look back upon you life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.  Henry Drummond



They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.  Freddy Cole


A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.  Goethe


If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could be better changed in ourselves.  Carl Jung


An unused life is an early death.  Goethe


On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do.  On the other hand, people envy kids.  We’d like to be kids our whole lives.  Kids get to do what they do.  They live on their instincts.  David Duchormy


I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.  Bill Cosby


Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play –it – safers, the creatures of he commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.  Cecil Beaton


Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days.  What you can do or think you can do, begin it.  Goethe