list 100 quotes that really speak to me

“Where ever you go, go with all your heart.”

-Confucious

“Don’t let the problems of the world,
Drive you out of your mind.
Just smile and say
It has to be that way sometimes.”

“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or as heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose if we would but realize it, then to accept life unquestioningly.

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful and evil can become a source of beauty, joy and strength if faced with an open mind.

Every moment is a golden one for someone who has the vision to recognize it as such.”

“Tropic of Cancer”

Henry Miller 1934

67. Other things may change, but we start and end with family.
Anthony Brandt

68. The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
George Santayana

69. Families are like fudge…mostly sweet with a few nuts.
Unknown

70. Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe,
call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are,
you need one.
Jane Howard

A Brave and Startling Truth

by Maya Angelou

We, this people on a small and lonely planet
Traveling through causal space
Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns
To a destination where all signs tell us
It is possible and imperative that we discover
A brave and startling truth
And when we come to it
To the day of peacemaking
When we release our fingers
From fists of hostility
And allow the pure air to cool our palms
When the curtain falls on the minstrel show of hate
And faces sooted with scorn are scrubbed clean
When battlefields and coliseum
No longer rake our unique and particular sons and daughters
Up with the bruised and bloody grass
To lie in identical plots in foreign lands
When the pennants are waving gaily
When the banners of the world tremble
Stoutly in the good, clean breeze
When we come to it
When we let the rifles fall from our shoulders
And children dress their dolls in flags of truce
When land mines of death have been removed
And the aged may walk into evenings of peace
When religious ritual is not perfumed
By the incense of burning flesh
And childhood dreams are not kicked awake
By nightmares of abuse
When we come to it
Then we will confess that not the Pyramids
With their stones set in mysterious perfection
Not the Garden of Babylon
Hanging as eternal beauty
In our collective memory
Not the Grand Canyon
Kindled in delicious color
By Western sunsets
Not the Danube flowing in its blue soul into Europe
Not the sacred peak of Mount Fuji
Stretching to the rising sun
Neither Father Amazon nor Mother Mississippi who, without favor,
Nurture all creatures in the depths and on the shores
These are not the only wonders of the world
When we come to it
We, this people, on this minuscule and kithless globe
Who reach daily for the bomb, the blade, the dagger
yet who petition in the dark for tokens of peace
We, this people on this moat of matter
in whose mouths abide cantankerous words
Which challenge our existence
Yet out of those same mouths
Can come songs of such exquisite sweetness
That the heart falters in its labor
And the body is quieted into awe
We, this people, on this small and drifting planet
Whose hands can strike with such abandon
That in a twinkling, life is sapped from the living
Yet those same hands can tough with such healing, irresistible tenderness
That the haughty neck is happy to bow
And the proud back is glad to bend
Out of such chaos, of such contradiction
We learn that we are neither devils or divines
When we come to it
We, this people, on this wayward, floating body
Created on this earth, of this earth
have the power to fashion for this earth
A climate where every man and every woman
Can live freely without sanctimonious piety
And without crippling fear
When we come to it
We must confess that we are the possible
We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world
That is when, and only when
We come to it.

61. Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.
_Anonymous

62. How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
_{William E. Rothschild}

63. Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.
_{Joseph B. Wirthlin}

64. Friends are the ones who lift us from our feet when our wings forget how to fly.
_Anonymous

65. Friends are treasures.
_{Horace Burns}

1. “I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”

2. “I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.”

3. “I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.”

4. “I’ve learned that “making a living” is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.”

5. “I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.”

6. “I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.”

7. “I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”

8. “I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.”

9. “I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.”

10. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

A tribute to the number one woman on my list of 43 women young girls should look up to. Margaret Mead taught the value of looking openly and carefully at other cultures to understand the complexities of being human.

1. I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

2. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

3. Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.

4. I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

5. Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

6. Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

7. One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.

8. Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

9. We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.

10. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

I just recently finished two great books from Lonely Planet, “Unpacked” and “On the Edge.” I couldn’t resist sharing some of my favorite modern travel writer quotes.

31. Never journey without something to eat in your pocket. If only to throw to dogs when attacked.
—E.S. Bates

32. In traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
—James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson

33. The glamour of the East had cast its spell upon him; the mystery of lands in which no white man had set foot since the beginning of things had fired his imagination; the itch of travel was upon him, goading him to restlessness.
—Hugh Clifford, The Story of Exploration

34. I prefer mythology to history because history starts from the truth and goes towards lies and mythology starts from lies-fantasy-and goes toward truth.
—Jean Cocteau

35. There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party for six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.
—Cyril Connolly, A Romantic Friendship

36. Pico Iyer: Words are the way we complicate the simple. The deepest aspects of life are about wordlessness. Something you can’t articulate.

37. Pico Iyer on the purpose of travel: Travel is not about collecting passport stamps, but keeping your eyes open.

38. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
—Paul Theroux

39. It is almost axiomatic that as soon as a place gets a reputation for being paradise it goes to hell.
—Paul Theroux

40. I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag

These quotes are for my brother.

1. The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
—R. G. Ingersoll.

2. Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
—Unknown.

3. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
—Ernest Hemingway.

4. Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
—Eddie Rickenbacker.

5. Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
—Robertson Davies.

6. You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
—Maya Angelou.

7. Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
—Mark Twain.

8. A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step.
—Ancient Egyptian Proverb.

9. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore.
—Unknown.

10. Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
—Unknown.