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STATUS QUOtes — 20220416

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“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.” — Paul Tillich

“A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing.” — Mary Oliver

“One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.” — Seth Godin

“When you walk into a chocolate store, suddenly the most difficult decision you will ever have to make in your life, is which chocolates to pick! It is pure torture!” — C. JoyBell

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20210127

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.” — Mary Oliver

“Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.” — Amanda Heggs

“Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right.” — Glennon Doyle

“The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night… Brahms lost.” — Bennett Cerf

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20201029

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“Whatever happens tomorrow, we’ve had today.” — David Nicholls

“Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won’t listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force.” — Mary Oliver

“Freedom is the power to choose our own chains.” — Jean Jacques Rousseau

“If Dracula can’t see his reflection in a mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed?” — Steven Wright

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200828

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Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

 

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“It’s amazing why we keep loving this country, and this country does not love us back.” — Doc Rivers

“That’s the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. ‘Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?'” — Mary Oliver

“One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.” — Josiah Gilbert Holland

“If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist’s office would be full of luminous ideas.” — Mason Cooley

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20190823

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“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” — Mary Oliver

“The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of face.” — Stephen Jay Gould

“When I was younger I wish I’d known that what often seemed to be the ‘end of the world’ often turned out to be a positive and transformative experience!” — Annie Lennox

“Fumbling for a word is everybody’s birthright.” — Anthony Burgess

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190729

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“A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.” — Yiddish proverb

“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no dissenters, we should still be living in caves.” — A. J. P. Taylor

“May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful.” — Mary Oliver

“Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.” — Ann Landers

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190522

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“A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.” — Leon Tec

“I love the quiet calmness before the world is just waking up. That amazing moment before the chaos of the day starts. Mornings are magical.” — Keith Wynn

“Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing.
And gave it up. And took my old body
and went out into the morning,
and sang. — Mary Oliver

“Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.” — Agnes Repplier

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190121

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“What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck

“I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement.” — Mary Oliver

“The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” — Unknown

“My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.” — Jean Rostand

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20170121

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“We are advertis’d by our loving friends.” — William Shakespeare

“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” — Mary Oliver

“My heart is a bargain today. Will you take it?” — W. C. Fields

“Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.” — Annie Dillard

 

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