Yesterday I shared how music can move and inspire me. As I continue to muse on varying themes at the start of a new year, I was reminded of how words, phrases, and quotes can also move me, so sharing a few favourites. Each is linked to an earlier blog giving more context (and often the full quote or passage), so enjoy diving into those that inspire you to do so:
Connection is the feeling of landing in the present tense ~ Kae Tempest, from “On Connection”
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure ~Marianne Williamson
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. ~ Winston Churchill
The whole purpose of life has been to pass on what was learned. There is no higher purpose ~ Morgan Freeman’s character explaining what to do to Lucy in the movie of that name
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them ~ Ernest Hemingway
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how ~ Nietzsche, as quoted by Viktor Frankl in “Man’s Search for Meaning”
In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.
~ John O’Dohonue
Be More You ~ Ed Percival