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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do

Cris Popenoe — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 22:06:51 +0000

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

– Rumi

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Cris Popenoe — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:21:35 +0000

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

– Joseph Campbell

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.

Cris Popenoe — Fri, 04 May 2018 23:21:33 +0000

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.

– Willa Cather

I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.

Cris Popenoe — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 22:58:24 +0000

I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.

– Socrates

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

admin — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 17:10:07 +0000

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

– William Butler Yeats

What if today we were just grateful for everything

Cris Popenoe — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 16:21:51 +0000

What if today we were just grateful for everything.

– Charles Schultz

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Cris Popenoe — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 20:37:50 +0000

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

– Henry Ford

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Cris Popenoe — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:28:30 +0000

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

– Winston Churchill

I do not understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.

Cris Popenoe — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 00:30:14 +0000

I do not understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.

– Annie Lamott

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

admin — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 17:29:07 +0000

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

– The Dalai Lama

Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare.

Cris Popenoe — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 23:48:04 +0000

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

– Muhammad Ali

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Cris Popenoe — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:29:25 +0000

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

– Aesop

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself

Cris Popenoe — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 18:12:10 +0000

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

– Henry David Thoreau

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Cris Popenoe — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 14:00:22 +0000

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

– Lao Tzu

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Cris Popenoe — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 14:00:39 +0000

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

– Maya Angelou

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Cris Popenoe — Thu, 12 May 2016 13:00:37 +0000

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

– Will Durant (often attributed to Aristotle)

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Cris Popenoe — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:30:49 +0000

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

– Henry David Thoreau

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door

Cris Popenoe — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:00:31 +0000

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

-Milton Berle

What you seek is seeking you.

Cris Popenoe — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 11:00:28 +0000

What you seek is seeking you.

-Rumi

Selected from Magnetic Wind

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

admin — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 18:21:07 +0000

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

– Marcel Proust

The quieter you become the more you can hear.

Cris Popenoe — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:00:18 +0000

The quieter you become the more you can hear.

– Ram Dass

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Cris Popenoe — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:00:51 +0000

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

– Will Rogers

Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day

Cris Popenoe — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:00:17 +0000

Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

– Zen Proverb

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are

Cris Popenoe — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 15:00:43 +0000

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

– e.e. cummings

Selected from 221c Baker Street

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Cris Popenoe — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:00:10 +0000

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

– Muriel Rukeyser

Selected from QuotesCover

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Cris Popenoe — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 20:41:26 +0000

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

– Joseph Campbell

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Cris Popenoe — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:14:39 +0000

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

– Jane Goodall

The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.

Cris Popenoe — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 16:00:07 +0000

“The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.”

– Pema Chödrön

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

Cris Popenoe — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 11:00:40 +0000

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

– Lucille Ball

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

Cris Popenoe — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 22:34:36 +0000

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

– Benjamin Franklin

The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.

Cris Popenoe — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 11:00:14 +0000

The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.

– Native American saying

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Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Cris Popenoe — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 11:00:23 +0000

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

– Norman Vincent Peale

Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.

Cris Popenoe — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:00:27 +0000

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

– Aldous Huxley

Selected from Naturally Good

Every wall is a door.

Cris Popenoe — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:00:25 +0000

Every wall is a door.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Selected from focusNjoy

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Cris Popenoe — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:00:27 +0000

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

– Carlos Castaneda

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Cris Popenoe — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 22:12:30 +0000

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

– Herodotus

Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after

admin — Sat, 02 May 2015 14:10:07 +0000

Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.

– Henry David Thoreau

Selected from Medium

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

Cris Popenoe — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:00:02 +0000

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated

Cris Popenoe — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:00:48 +0000

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

-Confucius

Selected from Prodigious Life

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

Cris Popenoe — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 23:29:55 +0000

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

– Mark Twain

Selected from GiftsWithMemories

Imagination is more important than knowledge

Cris Popenoe — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 14:30:42 +0000

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

– Albert Einstein

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

admin — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:52:07 +0000

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

– Confucius

Be yourself, everyone else is taken.

Cris Popenoe — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 15:00:14 +0000

Be yourself, everyone else is taken.

– Oscar Wilde

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Cris Popenoe — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 10:00:55 +0000

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

– Albert Einstein

Selected from The Things We Say

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Cris Popenoe — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:30:04 +0000

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

– Helen Keller

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Cris Popenoe — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:00:03 +0000

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

– Josh Billings

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

Cris Popenoe — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:00:12 +0000

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

– Groucho Marx

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s learning to dance in the rain.

Cris Popenoe — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:00:21 +0000