Sir Steve Redgrave - People

"I admire people that can push themselves and drive themselves to get to the highest level they can possibly be." ~Sir Steve Redgrave 

Michael Calcagno - on Aging

"Centenarians — people 100 years or older — are a rarity. Their lives are often scrutinized as holding the key to aging." ~Michael Calcagno(via the "FACES of CENTURY" photo production of Jan Langer

Ben Squires - Alzheimer's

"When someone you love is struggling with Alzheimer’s it can be difficult to find the strength to keep going. Often, it’s the little moments of love that give you strength." ~Ben Squires, wrote about an "88-year-old Alzheimer’s sufferer’s lovely duet with son" via Over Sixty dot com dot au

"Mom is 88 now. She's in assisted living and has Alzheimer's but she can still play and sing better than anyone in my eyes. I realized while I was singing with her tonight, I had never videoed us singing together, so I captured a couple of songs for posterity....... Most days I miss her, but she always comes back to me when we sing.” ~Kelly Ridings of Dalton, Georgia

Watch them on YOU TUBE/Storyful/BrianRidings

Sergei Prokofiev - on abhorrence

"I abhor imitation and I abhor the familiar." ~Sergei Prokofiev

Quotes on ENLIGHTENMENT

"Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand." ~Alan Cohen

"Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious." ~Carl Gustav Jung

"Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm." ~Idries Shah

"I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder." ~Chuck Palahniuk

"Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love." ~M. Scott Peck

"Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment." ~Nikola Tesla

"The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.” ~Dave Mustaine

"The only thing that can bring happiness is waking up from the dream like reality we all live in to the ever lasting bliss of full enlightenment." ~Eric McNeish

"The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines." ~Anne Lamott

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Jan Langer Quotes

"One should live every single moment according to their best knowledge and conscience because one day we will see clearly what has a real value." ~Jan Langer , Czech photographer, "Faces of Century"

“The characteristics of personality change throughout life but it seems as if individual nature remains rooted in the abyss of time." ~Jan Langer, Czech photographer, "Faces of Century"

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Thelma Davis - presence

"When someone is going through a storm, your silent presence is more powerful than a million empty words." ~Thelma Davis

Veronica Perrurle Dobson

"Language and culture are our identities. Keeping our languages strong helps to keep us strong." ~Veronica Perrurle Dobson (Australian Geographic)

“We are people of the land and our language expresses this. Our knowledge is held in our languages and our languages express our cultures.” ~Veronica Perrurle Dobson, Alice Springs-based educator, author and Arrernte senior (Australian Geographic)

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Joy Browne - perfect

"If we give up the notion that everybody's life but ours is perfect, we would be a lot happier. Nobody's life is perfect." ~Joy Browne

Sofan Chan - compassionate

"Only when I learnt to be compassionate to myself could I be compassionate to others." ~Sofan Chan, Artist

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Quotes

“A preface is usually an excrescence on a good book, and a vain apology for a worthless one.” ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

"An author departs, he does not die." ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

"Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding." ~Dinah M Craik

"How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors." ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

"It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it." ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

“It is one of my decided opinions that married people ought to have no one, be the tie ever so close and dear, living permanently with them, to break the sacred duality — no, let me say the unity of their home.” ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman

“[It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or benevolence; a quality which can exist only in strong, deep, and undemonstrative natures, and therefore in its perfection is oftenest found in men.” ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman

"Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away." ~Dinah M. Craik

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts not measured words, but pouring them right out, just as they are.” ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

"The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man." ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

"When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why." ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

VERSE

“Forgotten? No, we never do forget:
We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,
Leave them to bleach out in the open day,
Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes,
Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,—
But we forget not, never can forget.”
~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Source: Goodreads

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Raymond Reddington - Wisdom

"Wisdom is learning the boundaries of one's designated lane." ~Raymond Reddington

Emeka Ossai Quotes

"Having the right mindset, the right mental attitude, is the determining factor on whether you will make it or not." ~Emeka Ossai

"When you have good mentors to guide you, you shorten your learning curve by learning from their mistakes so you don't make them." ~Emeka Ossai

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Lewis Mumford - sound of beauty

"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life." ~Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)

Quotes on IMAGE

"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul." ~George Bancroft

"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image." ~Johann Wolgang von Goethe

"He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. [It., Muore per meta chi lascia un' immagine di se stesso nei figi.]" ~Goldoni

"My child, never judge a man because of his race. Never. God looks at the heart. So should we. We are all made in God's image." ~Robin Lee Hatcher

"The Lord can chisel His image on our flawed lives and make us beautiful and useful." ~Dennis De Haan

“What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.” ~~Graham Swift, Waterland from Everyone's Library

"You are every image, and yet I am homesick for you." ~Rumi

"Your image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person." ~Derek Jeter

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‪John Vier ‬Quotes

‪"Only few people have that heart to mold the next generation." ~John Vier ‬

‪"What you built today will be a monument in the future." ~John Vier ‬

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT : Beware of THIRD PARTY

"Many people are forgetting how to communicate to their partners in their relationships. Instead of discussing and solving their problems with their partners, they share them with toxic friends, work associates and others post them on the internet. If your partner is doing something that bothers you, talk to him or her and stop letting facebook inboxes, likes, retweets ruin what you are trying to build... Beware of third Party!" ~Emotional Filmtricks

Lu Yu - on drinking TEA

"Tea tempers the spirit and harmonises the minds; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness." ~Lu Yu

Walter Rauschbusch - PLAY

"Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty." ~Walter Rauschbusch

Thomas Malory - MAY

"The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit." ~Thomas Malory

Joanna Macy - heart

"The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe." ~Joanna Macy

‪Jeri Grigg‬ - Wisdom

"Wisdom abides in simple truths." ~‪Jeri Grigg‬

A THOUGHT TO PONDER: WORDS

"Words are living things, they have the power to inspire, uplift, and to destroy. Think about that before you open your mouth today!" ~Michael Baisden

Jadav Payeng - last breath

“I will continue to plant until my last breath.” ~Jadav Payeng

BIO

Padma Shri Jadav "Molai" Payeng is a Mishing tribe environmental activist and forestry worker from Jorhat, India. Over the course of several decades, he planted and tended trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra turning it into a forest reserve. Wikipedia

LAUREN BACALL Quotes

"Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy." ~Lauren Bacall

 "Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." ~Lauren Bacall

"Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life." ~Lauren Bacall

"You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going." ~Lauren Bacall

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