Sandy's Thoughts For The Week ~ inspirational quotes from famous figures
By Pegge Strella
OCTOBER 20, 2025
"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right." ~ Nelson Mandela
OCTOBER 14, 2025
"We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require deliberation before any precipitous action." ~ Peter Yarrow
OCTOBER 8, 2025
"Every leaf speaks bliss to me fluttering from the autumn tree." ~ Emily Bronte
OCTOBER 2, 2025
"Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart." ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Photo by Andrzej Pokrzywiec on Unsplash
September 16, 2025
"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time." ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
September 11, 2025
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. ~ Henry Adams
September 5, 2025
"Politics is a team sport. Nobody can get anything done alone. But loyalty to the team must never displace loyalty to the truth." ~ David Brooks
AUGUST 18, 2025 ~ Toni Morrison: "The function of freedom is to free someone else."
AUGUST 13, 2025 ~ Mark Twain: "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it".
AUGUST 4, 2025 ~Theodore Roosevelt: "Do what you can, with all you have, wherever you are".
July 29, 2025 ~ Helen Keller:
Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
July 17, 2025 ~ Ronald Reagan:
When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
July 08, 2025 ~ Margarel Renkl:
Change is always a source of dislocation, but if nature teaches us anything, it's that nothing prevents the passage of time, the turning of the seasons.
July 01, 2025 ~ quote of the week...shared by Sandy :
"Turn your face up to the sky. Listen. The world is reminding us that this is what the world does best. New life. Rebirth. The greenness that rises out of ashes." ~ Margaret Renkl
June 25, 2025
"Change only happens when ordinary people get involved, get engaged and come together to demand it." ~Former President Barack Obama
June 18, 2025
"The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books." ~Nicholas Kristof
June 09, 2025
"Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs:
The future can be better than the present and I have the power to make it so."
~David Brooks
May 26, 2025
"Don't try to force the country back to an earlier more willfully oblivious era when the topic of inequality was everywhere to be witnessed but nowhere to be mentioned. That is a kind of barbarity."
~John McWhorter
May12, 2025
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones that we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek."
~ Former President Barack Obama
May 01, 2025
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
April 22, 2025
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast." ~ Alexander Pope
April 17, 2025
"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains." ~ Anne Frank
April 02, 2025
"As long as there is humanity, there will be challenges to who we are and how we are seeing. As long as we are willing to be aggressive storytellers, as long as we are willing to write that next chapter... we can keep fighting for good, fighting for better and fighting for one another." ~Stacey Abrams
March 31, 2025
"One of the reasons we're lonely is that we've cut ourselves off from the non-human world and have called this progress. Numerous encounters in nature are moments of reconnection, part of the human search for reciprocal love." ~Barry Lopez, author
March 10, 2025
"We don't know what will happen, but we know this: Even the bitterest winter doesn't last forever. Spring is coming." ~Margaret Renkl
March 04, 2025
"Recognizing that we maintain agency fuels hope, and maintaining hope reminds that we have agency. Resilience comes down to a few core factors; leaning into community, being kind to yourself...allowing yourself to feel sadness and loss and yet maintain hope at the same time. It requires a commitment to taking productive action." ~ Brad Stulberg, author
February 25, 2025
"In this moment, is it still possible to face the gathering darkness and say to the physical earth, and to all its creatures, including ourselves, fiercely and with out embarrassment, I love you, and to embrace fearlessly the burning world."
~ Barry Lopez
