"We Are What We Quote"
- Gary Saul Morson -
“All moments are key moments, and life itself is grace” (Frederick Buechner)
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different? (C.S. Lewis)
It’s funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox, full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools—friendships, prayers, conscience, honesty—and said, Do the best you can with these, they will have to do. And mostly, against all odds, they’re enough." (Anne Lamott)
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?” (Marianne Williamson)
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” (Soren Kierkegaard)
“Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.” (Oscar Wilde)
“No matter what’s behind us in the rearview mirror, it’s always about what’s next.” (Dabo Swinney)
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." (Winston Churchill)
"In general, anxiety happens when we overestimate how bad something is going to be and underestimate our ability to deal with it." (Lisa Damour)
"There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future." (St. Augustine)
"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." (Aesop)
"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work." (Stephen King)
"There are 2000 verses of Scripture that tell us we must be committed to protecting the poor and the oppressed... There is no concern of Scripture that is addressed so often and so powerfully as reaching out to the poor." (Tony Compolo)
“Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.” (Lucy Grealy)
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream” (C.S. Lewis)
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up” (Vince Lombardi)
“Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities” (Robert H. Schuller)
"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory." (Dr. Seuss)
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” (George Eliot)
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” (Albert Einstein)
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life–to be happy–it’s all that matters.” (Audrey Hepburn)
“Most people chase success at work, thinking that will make them happy. The truth is that happiness at work will make you successful.” (Alexander Kjerulf)
“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” (Dolly Parton)
“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” (Stephen Covey)
"Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people..." (Lucy Grealy)
“All we know is that we are here and it is now. Other than that, all human knowledge is nonsense. Time stays, and we go. Life is a dead-end street.” (H.L. Mencken)
"The truth is, most of us find out where we were headed when we arrive." (Bill Waterson)
"If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real life is found only in the present." (Leo Tolstoy)
"A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but cannot a few well-spoken words convey as many pictures?" (Author Unknown)
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” (John Lennon and others...)
"People are crazy, the times are strange." (Bob Dylan)
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” (Nelson Mandela)
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” (Albert Einstein)
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” (Mae West)
“If you don’t like something, change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” (Mary Engelbreit)
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” (Ranier Maria Rilke)
“We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.” (Mitch Albom)
“Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.” (Linus Pauling)
“Life is a constant battle between short term happiness and long-term satisfaction.” (Unknown)
"There is more to life than increasing its speed." (Mahatma Ghandi)
"Doubt is an uncomfortable condition but certainty is a ridiculous one." (Voltaire)
"The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who couldn't make a decision" (Not sure who said it, but it's true...)
"The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world." (Paul Farmer)
"It is kind of shocking when your world falls to pieces and everything and everyone around you carries on with life. How can the birds continue to sing? How can people carry on loving life? It is like you have become frozen in time and are now watching life like a movie. As the weeks and months roll by, life becomes more real again, but you will never forget that point in time where life stood still." (Zoe Clark-Coates)
"While our bodies move ever forward on the timeline, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking its mark" (Lucy Grealy)
