I didn’t know what topic to choose for the letter “Q” but as the universe tends to do, it fell into my hands with a little book called, Brave Enough, by Cheryl Strayed, author of, Wild; from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail.
In her latest book, Brave Enough, she shares her favorite quotes and those her readers have turned into memes from her books and other writings. Cheryl’s favorite quote is of unknown origin, handed down from her grandmother:
“Love many, trust few and always paddle your own canoe.”
We all have our favorite quotes. I wanted to share a few of my favorites with you. I hope you find them inspiring.
“Yesterday is but a dream,
tomorrow is only a vision,
but today, well lived,
makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”
~Bhagavada Gita
“Let yourself be silently drawn
by the strange pull of what you really love.
It will not lead you astray.”
~ Rumi
“Change the way you look at things
and the things you look at change.”
~ Wayne Dyer
I would love to hear your favorite quote! If you have time, please share in the comment section.
~Namaste
I just put one up in Bill’s version of this. LOL.
But I’ll give you a more spiritually based one.
“You can’t think your way into right action. But you can act your way into right thinking.”
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“You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.”
Corrie Ten Boom; former prisoner of a German camp during WW2 and author of The Hiding Place.
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I’d never be able to settle for one favorite quote, but for today I’m really loving this gem from Anais Nin:
“I’m restless. Things are calling me away.
My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”
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Oh, I love that! The stars and the moon tug at me all the time! Thanks for sharing!
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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
-Eleanor Rooselvelt
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I’m a believer and inspired by Eleanor’s wisdom.
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I have so many (LOL)….There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. ~ Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde is a favorite too! Lol
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So many quotes spring to mind, but I’ll go another way. One of my favorites from Ray Bradbury’s From the Dust Returned: “Seeking the answer, more wine was poured.” 🙂
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Ah, there are so many ways to go…:) Thanks for reading!
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“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ― Albert Einstein
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I love that quote! Thanks for sharing!
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“Have you ever had a dream that you were awake….and when you woke up….you were asleep?”
~My Grandmother~
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Ohhh, that’s a good one! Wise woman, your Grandmother.
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Indeed.
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I love that idea of always paddling your own canoe–simple wisdom! I fall in love with too many quotes, but one of my perennial favorites is from Theodore Roethke’s poem The Waking:
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
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Beautiful, thanks for sharing!
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