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Quote of the Day – Quote About Making a Difference

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Quote about Making a Difference

Quote About Making a Difference

“If you bang your head against a brick wall long enough, the wall will fall.  And once you start banging your head against that wall, others will join you.” – Ingrid E. Newkirk, One Can Make a Difference

You know how you normally say, “I just read this book…” or “I just read that book.” In regards to the book this quote was pulled from, One Can Make a Difference, by Ingrid E. Newkirk, the appropriate quote is, “This book recently changed me.”

Amazing book. Amazing Amazing book.


Quote About Fitness and the Life You Could Be Living by Shawn Phillips

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“Eventually, there comes a point in every life where you can no longer ignore the enormous and expanding gap between the life you could be living and the life you’ve settled for…. Every day of your life that you’re not actively engaged in staying fit, eating well, and strengthening your body the gap grows.” – Shawn Phillips, Strength for Life (page 10)

You can read my review of Strength for Life here.

 

Great Quotes About Learning

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Quotes About Learning

Quote About Learning from Lloyd Alexander

Not long ago, I wrote about the importance of reading for mental fitness. Educating ourselves (whether it’s in the realm of our greatest interests or in the realm of current events) does more than keep us sharp, it allows us to stretch our minds and grow mentally.

Always a stretch worth taking, right?

These wonderful quotes about learning and mentally expanding will give you the encouragement you need!

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. – Henry L. Doherty

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. – Chinese Proverb

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. – Abraham Lincoln

We learn from failure, not from success! ~ Bram Stoker, Dracula

It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. ~ Albert Einstein

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. ~ Benjamin Franklin

No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. – Frances Willard

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. – Henry Ford

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. – Lloyd Alexander

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. ~ Albert Einstein

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. ~ Voltaire

“Don’t Just”

Don’t just learn, experience.
Don’t just read, absorb.
Don’t just change, transform.
Don’t just relate, advocate.
Don’t just promise, prove.
Don’t just criticize, encourage.
Don’t just think, ponder.
Don’t just take, give.
Don’t just see, feel.
Don’t just dream, do.
Don’t just hear, listen.
Don’t just talk, act.
Don’t just tell, show.
Don’t just exist, live.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart


Quote About Individuality and Self Expression by Barbara Adams

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“I think people should express themselves, not someone else. I hear mothers say that they have to buy their teenagers the latest jacket or sneakers or Izon this and that so they can express themselves. I want to say, “How can you express yourself by wearing what everyone else is wearing, and by wearing a label that expresses the designer or the company that produced it?” It isn’t what you can afford that matters, it’s what’s inside that counts. Be you; express yourself, not someone else.” -Barbara Adams

The wonderful quote above is from one of the most inspirational books in my book collection, One Can Make a Difference (Amazon Link)

Book Description:
When Ingrid E. Newkirk almost single-handedly set into motion the largest animal-rights organization in the world, she knew that one person can make a difference. In her new book, Newkirk has collected the wisdom, stories, and insight of more than 50 activists and world-changers who have proven that one person can create a movement. Through fascinating stories and advice, this book offers a roadmap for those of us seeking to better the world, and also provides a boost of inspiration for seasoned activists and other quiet agents of change.

This beautiful and inspiring book really isn’t so much about improving the world around you as it is about improving yourself, your mindset, and your goals.. and, that, in turn will have nothing but positive effects on the world in which you live.

This truly is one of the most inspiring and motivating books I’ve ever read.

Read more about One Can Make a Difference on Amazon Link.

Quote Graphic About Spring (Cat and Flowers, What More Could you Want?!)

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Quote About Spring

Four things I am BEYOND obsessed with are cats, flowers, laughter and spring…. so the graphic and quote above? It’s so “me,” I may as well be the cat!

Spring is a perfect time for cleaning out the cobwebs, and I don’t mean just the ones in the corner on the carport. Although they have got to go.

If spring were a holiday, she’d be New Years Day, for sure. It’s a time of cleansing, reevaluating, and, for lack of a better term, coming back to life. Everything comes back to life in the springtime – trees, yards, flower beds… even songbirds suddenly remember they have a song to sing.

The same can be true of us as well. Things we’d like to change? What better time to attack them?!

If we’d love more happiness in our lives… what better time to invite it right in?!

Take this spring and make it what you want it to be. It’s yours after all.

~ Joi (“Joy”)