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It is time for another Mid Week Quote and this is the first one for 2023.
“Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways.”
Glennon Doyle
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Mid Week Quote: Glennon Doyle
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Mid Week Quote: Charles M. Schulz
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It is time for another Christmas themed quote.
My chosen quote this week is by the creator of the comic strip Peanuts Charles Schulz (1922-2000).
“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”
Charles M. Schulz
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Mid Week Quote: Dr Seuss
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I thought I would go for a festive quote this week.
“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!”
Dr Seuss
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Mid Week Quote: Freya Stark
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My chosen quote this week is by Dame Freya Madeline Stark (1893-1993). Stark was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays.
“I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling.”
Freya Stark
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Mid Week Quote: Anna Botsford Comstock
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My chosen quote this week is by Anna Botsford Comstock (1854-1930) who was an acclaimed author, illustrator, and educator of natural studies. She was the first female professor at Cornell University and her 900 page work The Handbook of Nature Study is now in its 24th edition.
“I look upon a year lived as a year earned; and each year earned means a greater treasury of experience and power laid up against time of need.”
Anna Botsford Comstock
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Mid Week Quote: Michelle Obama
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My chosen quote today is by the American attorney and author who served as first lady of the United States Michelle Obama (1964).
“You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”
Michelle Obama
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Mid Week Quote: Rita Levi-Montalcini
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My chosen quote today is by Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012) who was an Italian Nobel Laureate, honoured for her work in neurobiology. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine jointly with Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor. On 22 April 2009, she became the first Nobel Laureate to reach the age of 100.
“Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.”
Rita Levi-Montalcini
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Mid Week Quote: George R. R. Martin
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I hope everyone is having a good week so far. My chosen quote this week is one I fully agree with and one that I have followed quite often.
This quote is by the author George R. R. Martin (1948) the American author, screenwriter, television producer and short story writer.
“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
George R. R. Martin
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Mid Week Quote: Albert Einstein
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My chosen quote today is by Albert Einstein. I must admit I really do like his quotes because I find them quite inspiring.
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
Albert Einstein
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Mid Week Quote: Edward Estlin Cummings
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I hope everyone is having a good week so far.
My chosen quote this week is by the American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962).
“To be nobody but
E. E. Cummings
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
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