Quotes Are Like Planting Seeds
Many quotes have grown as guidance in my life
The following quotes were taken from various Medium.com articles and saved in my journals for 2021. I tagged an author the first time only that I quoted him or her.
January 2021
Darshak Rana: “A beautiful future does not happen by chance or by fluke. We have to work for it. We have to create it.”
Lanu Pitan: “Nothing goes unpunished in the end. It is like seedtime and harvest”.
Darshak Rana: “The best way to face fears is to see the worst case scenario if you fail.”
Leonardo da Vinci: “To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
Lanu Pitan quoted C.S.Lewis: “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
February 2021:
Lanu Pitan quoted William Blake: If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is — infinite.
Albert Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge”.
Jiddu Krishnamurti: ‘’Intuition is the whisper of the soul’’
Darshak Rana: “If we can learn to create a beautiful and healthy relationship with nature, we can sustain our happiness and peacefulness for a longer time.”
Steven Gambardella on Nietzche: “People are so unique that we could each be a species unto ourselves. We should embrace that uniqueness.”
March 2021
Peter Burns quotes Vincent Van Gogh: “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
@Claire Elaine: “The Heart of the Craftsman — Do your senses already hold the form of that which you hope to craft?”
Deepak Chopra: “Unfortunately, anger begets more anger, and eventually the pot boils over.”
Lanu Pitan quotes William Blake: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is — infinite.”
Ruchi Thalwal: “The growth of individual is in many directions — Branching more and more as life goes by extending its roots inside to ground itself.”
Shirley Willett: : “The Past teaches the Present how to redesign the Future”
April 2021
Shirley Willett: “Spirituality is the Common Denominator of Everything”
Kimberly Fosu “Can You Believe What You Can’t See?”
stevemaraboli: “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”
Darshak Rana: Every matter perishes with time but the essence remains which becomes the source of a new beginning”
Amardeep Parmar quotes Picasso: “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
May 2021
Lanu Pitan: “Every solution to every problem is simple. It’s the distance between the two is where the mystery lies.”
Lanu Pitan quotes Rumi: “You’re not just a drop in the ocean, you’re also the mighty ocean in the drop.”
Dale Carnegie: “People hardly succeed unless they find fun in what they are doing”
Dostoyevsky: “The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
Steven Gambardella: “Against, but accepting. Principled, but compassionate. Such are the contradictions that we must live with to live peacefully together.”
Lanu Pitan quotes George Bernard Shaw: “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
Steven Gambardella quotes Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Willam McKeen: “Life and Afterlife: In the former: We know everything but understand nothing. In the later: We will come to understand everything without the need of knowing everything”
Albert Einstein: “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
Kimberly Fosu: “Pain is meant to wake you up. Your pain is a part of you and is the alert to check the actual problem”
Darshak Rana: “Love is like the air beneath the bird’s wings — That empowers others to fly and sing”
June 2021
Shirley Willett quotes Kahlil Gibran: “God moves in passion and rests in reason”.
Ernest hemingway: “The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are stronger in the broken places.”
Steve Jobs: “Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
David Gerken quotes Ram Dass: “The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.”
Dr Mehmet Yildiz: “The only way in which we truly LEARN is from an awareness of our mistakes. By learning from the past, leveraging the moment, we can design our future. We can dream about the future, make plans, and create our reality”
Steven Gambardella quotes Montaigue: “Thirst for glory is the most futile of all, the most valueless and bogus currency known to man.”
Lanu Pitan quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”
Kim Barrett quotes Aldous Huxley: “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
Thank you Darshak Rana, for Spiritual Saturday and your prompt on Quotes.
And thanks to all the wonderful writers on Medium.com
