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Wordless Wednesday- May the Force Be With You
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Motivation Monday
Here’s some motivational quotes for you all this late Monday night!
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”- Thomas A. Edison
“Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.”― Kelly A. Morgan
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”- H. G. Wells
“Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.”― William James
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.
Simple Sunday- Curiosity
“It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.”- Adam Savage
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”-Albert Einstein
“If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.”-Marie Curie
“There are two sorts of curiosity – the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.”-Robert Wilson Lynd
“The new normal is continuous learning, and we look for people who demonstrate lots of different interests and really demonstrate curiosity.”- Julie Sweet
Simple Sunday- Humor
“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.”-Dr. Seuss
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”- e. e. cummings
“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.”- Audrey Hepburn
“Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.”- Washington Irving
“It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.”-Betty White
“Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.”- Carl Hiaasen
Simple Sunday- Joy
“Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.”-Jonathan Sacks, Rabbi
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”-Eleonora Duse
“Nothing brings me more joy than when people love what I do.”-Phoebe Waller-Bridge
“I think one of the studio’s characteristics is to embrace wholeheartedly what we feel is interesting; what we perceive to be worthwhile, cool, or beautiful; and to place these ideals at the foundation of the games we make.”-Hidetaka Miyazaki
“No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.”-Stephen Hawking
Simple Sunday- Extraordinary
“We must overcome the notion that we must be regular… it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.”-Uta Hagen
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
“When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.”-Kristin Armstrong
“Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”-Orison Swett Marden
“I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.”- Brene Brown
Simple Sunday- Spring
“The sun was warm, but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. when the sun is out and the wind is still, you’re one month on in the middle of May.”- Robert Frost
“Dead my old fine hopes and dry my dreaming, but still Iris, blue each spring.”- Shushiki
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Spring drew on…and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.”
― John Muir, The Wilderness World of John Muir
Simple Sunday- Books
“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”― Mark Twain
“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”- Henry Ward Beecher
“But the man in the robe is talking. His voice is like the rustling of old parchments in a library, late at night, when the people have gone home and the books begin to read themselves.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman Omnibus, Vol. 2
“There were books on all sorts of topics, from exciting things of vital importance to things that nobody had a reason to care about, but in a library the topics keep taking turns being important or interesting. Each patron in a library is looking for something different, and so the book you hardly notice is the book someone else is breathless to find, and the book that always makes you smile is busy making someone else sick.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast
“Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist.”
― Ian McEwan, Lessons
“A good book is like a guest. They stay with you for a while, and when they leave, you are still smiling, and thinking they left a little too soon. You will always remember their pleasant company; things they said that moved you and maybe changed your perspective You plan to invite them again so you can spend quality time together and when you invite them in, you are full of anticipation about the new discoveries you will make when you are together.”
― Suzy Davies
Wordless Wednesday- Harvard Museum of Scientific Instruments
Simple Sunday- Wisdom
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”-Confucius
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”-Calvin Coolidge
“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”-Henry Ward Beecher
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”-Benjamin Franklin
“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.”- Leonard Nimoy