• From Movies and TV
• Fun Quotes
• 03 November 1774
• 03 July 1776
• 12 May 1780
• 17 October 1946

From Movies and TV

Kung Fu Panda: “If you only do what you can do, you’ll never be more than you are now.”

Meet the Robinsons (2007): Keep Moving Forward

1. “Around here, however, we don’t look backward for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Wilbur Robinson (Walt Disney)
2. “I’m sorry your life turned out so bad. But don’t blame me you messed it up yourself. You just focused on the bad stuff when all you had to do was let go of the past and keep moving forward.” – Lewis
3. You failed! And it was awesome! From failing, you learn. From success? Not so much.

Home Alone 2 (1992): Forget to Remember You

• Bird Lady: “That broke my heart. And whenever the chance to be loved came along again, I ran away from it. I stopped trusting people.
• Kevin: “No offense, but that seems like sort of a dumb thing to do.
• Bird Lady: “I was afraid of getting my heart broken again. You see, sometimes you can trust a person, and then, when things are down, they forget about you.”
• Kevin: “Maybe they're just too busy. Maybe they don't forget about you, but they forget to remember you. I don't think people mean to forget. I think it just happens.”

Fun Quotes

• “Love is not: I will give this to you if you do this for me. Love is: I will give this to you so that you may shine.” Youg Pueblo
• "If you can only get what you want by telling a lie, then you are not smart enough to get it by telling the truth.” - Jordan Peterson
• “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
• “Authenticity: the way you behave when there is no risk of punishment.” - Alex Hormozi
• 03:21:30 Spotify #952 - Alex Hormozi - 41 Harsh Truths Nobody Wants To Admit
• ”Inspect what you expect.” - David Porter
• “Sometime you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” - Theodor Seuss Geisel
• “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle
• “We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.” - Stephen Covey
• "There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with a commitment and those who require the commitment of others.” - John Adams
• "If you cannot explain something in simple terms, then you don't understand it." - Dr. Richard Feynman
• “When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.” - Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
• “Be proud of yourself despite your setbacks.” - David Porter
• “Learn to let go, that is the key to happiness.” - Buddha
• Honesty without kindness is brutality. Kindness without honesty is manipulation.
• “Between what is said and not meant, an what is meant but not said, most of love is lost.” - Kahlil Gibran
• “If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with the heart of an angel.” - Keanu Reeves
• “In the absence of communication, the mind defaults to the negative.” - William Simkins
• “If necessity is the mother of invention, repetition is the father of results.” - Alex Hormozi

• “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
• “The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
• “Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.”
• “It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.”
• “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
• “Any fool can criticise, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
• “When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.”
• “Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself.”
• “Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.”
• “Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.”

“In the absence of communication, the mind defaults to the negative. So it's always better to over-communicate than negative than to not communicate.” - Will Simkins

“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” – Peter Drucker

“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.” – Stephen R. Covey

“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.” – Mahatma Gandhi

posituality posituality on Instagram: "it’s easy to get caught up in tomorrow and forget what’s right in front of you. but nothing lasts forever - not moments, not people, not the small, quiet joys 🌤️ take care of what you love while you have it. show up, appreciate it, nurture it - before it’s only something you look back on and wish you had valued more 🕊️ be present now, so you don’t live with regret later 🫶✨"

“Take care of what you love before it becomes a memory. We get so used to people, places, and routines that we forget they won’t always be there. Then one day it shifts. A goodbye you weren’t ready for and you wish you had been more present. But presence isn't about grand gestures. It’s about small, quiet moments we often overlook.

The brain prioritizes what feels urgent, but it’s often the quiet constants that hold the most meaning. Attention is love, and love is what stays after everything else changes. What in your life feels ordinary today might one day feel sacred.

Don’t wait for loss to teach you value. Slow down, say the thing, hold the gaze, take the photo, because nothing is promised and that’s what makes it precious.”

03 November 1774

“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays you instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.” – Edmund Burke, Speech to the Electors of Bristol

03 July 1776

“But the Day is past. The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.

I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance, by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.

You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States.

Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will triumph in that Days Transaction, even although We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.”

John Adams to Abigail Adams

12 May 1780

“I could fill Volumes with Descriptions of Temples and Palaces, Paintings, Sculptures, Tapestry, Porcelaine, &c. &c. &c. — if I could have time. But I could not do this without neglecting my duty. The Science of Government it is my Duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take Place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts.

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.”

John Adams to Abigail Adams

17 October 1946

D’Arline,

I adore you, sweetheart.

I know how much you like to hear that — but I don’t only write it because you like it — I write it because it makes me warm all over inside to write it to you.

It is such a terribly long time since I last wrote to you — almost two years but I know you’ll excuse me because you understand how I am, stubborn and realistic; and I thought there was no sense to writing.

But now I know my darling wife that it is right to do what I have delayed in doing, and that I have done so much in the past. I want to tell you I love you. I want to love you. I always will love you.

I find it hard to understand in my mind what it means to love you after you are dead — but I still want to comfort and take care of you — and I want you to love me and care for me. I want to have problems to discuss with you — I want to do little projects with you. I never thought until just now that we can do that. What should we do. We started to learn to make clothes together — or learn Chinese — or getting a movie projector. Can’t I do something now? No. I am alone without you and you were the “idea-woman” and general instigator of all our wild adventures.

When you were sick you worried because you could not give me something that you wanted to and thought I needed. You needn’t have worried. Just as I told you then there was no real need because I loved you in so many ways so much. And now it is clearly even more true — you can give me nothing now yet I love you so that you stand in my way of loving anyone else — but I want you to stand there. You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive.

I know you will assure me that I am foolish and that you want me to have full happiness and don’t want to be in my way. I’ll bet you are surprised that I don’t even have a girlfriend (except you, sweetheart) after two years. But you can’t help it, darling, nor can I — I don’t understand it, for I have met many girls and very nice ones and I don’t want to remain alone — but in two or three meetings they all seem ashes. You only are left to me. You are real.

My darling wife, I do adore you.

I love my wife. My wife is dead.

Rich.

PS Please excuse my not mailing this — but I don’t know your new address.