August 29, 2007

BMG's Collection of Great Quotes of the Day

Here are some of my favorites from the Quotes of the Day:

"I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game's winning shot...and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why...I succeed."
-Michael Jordan

"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent."
-C.G. Jung

"There is a vitality, a life force, 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

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
-Seneca

"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast--you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
-Eddie Cantor

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
-Joseph Chilton Pearce

"We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us."
-Ernesto Cardenal

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Nobody sees a flower--really--it is so small it takes time--we haven't time--and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."
-Georgia O'Keefe

1 comment:

Heather said...

That Martha quote is great! It always inspires me. Here's another quote I just rediscovered that you might like too, kind of in a similar vein:

"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." ~ Howard Thurman