September 14, 2025 • 19 mins
Let’s lift ourselves up out of this cloud! It’s been an exceptionally heavy week in the news, from the Charlie Kirk assassination to actual school shootings and the hoaxes that followed, this episode will give you the inspiration we all need to stay joyful, purposeful and yes, hopeful.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey there, folks.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Sit is Sunday, September fourteenth, Darkness, Light, Steve Jobs and
Buddha Robach went deep into her bag for this week's
quotes of the Week, and with that, welcome to this inspiration.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Edition of Amy and TJ. ROBESU. You've leaned on Buddha
a lot lately with the quotes of the week.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yes, we've needed some zen in our lives, and I
think especially this week.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
This was a heavy, heavy week.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
And I actually felt a deeper responsibility funny enough finding
some of these quotes, but interestingly, the quote that we
started with the week, we had no idea what events
would be unfolding, and I actually, at one point on
Wednesday when all of the breaking news of Charlie Kirk
was hitting us and consuming all of the airwaves, and
(00:52):
we really just felt this heaviness and darkness going into
September eleventh, I kept thinking about that quote on Monday
and how that actually I went back and I read
it and I thought about it, and it was from
Martin Luther King Junior. And this was one you said
you weren't even familiar with, but MLK Junior said something
and we put it on our Monday morning run without
(01:13):
any idea of how useful it would be for all
of us for the rest of the week. MLK Junior
said this darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can
do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can
do that, you know, And what we saw from that
gunman was hate trying to drive out. And I'm not
(01:36):
putting hate onto Kirk, but they obviously didn't like what
Charlie Kirk was preaching, and so it was an example
of what not to do.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
And you're the quote. I didn't think about it until
you just related to me again repeated it. But that
idea that what we saw seemed to be a direct
response or retaliation to what somebody didn't hear in a
message from somebody else. Obviously violence cannot be the answer
to that, but darkness driving out darkness hate hate. I
(02:10):
keep going back to hearing politicians lately saying fight fire
with fire, their language they're even using. I know they're
talking about it in a legislative way. I suppose fire
with fire, but the idea that we're ramping up and
getting ready for even more battle and now a bullet
just flew and killed a guy and in the midst
(02:33):
of this battle that even some of the politicians are
saying needs to get nastier.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
And frankly, I'm not making a statement, a political statement
at all about the death penalty and how anyone may
or may not feel about capital punishment. But for the
immediate in the hours, I feel like maybe even in
it was a short period of time later, we are
already started hearing the Utah governor and other officials, I believe,
even Trump talking about the death penalty.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
The death penalty.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I mean, it's just we just keep going like we're
gonna get you back. There's gonna be retaliation, you will,
you will pay physically and suffer for this. It's just
it's just we keep ramping it up. And so God,
I just want to lean on this quote one more time.
We can't control what other people do, but we can
control what we do, and we can be the light
and we can use love to battle hate. I know
(03:21):
that sounds cheesy, but I just got I needed this quote.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
All right, next quote, this.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
One comes to us. I actually we chose this one because.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Apple had their big aw dropping event today, I mean
this week where they were unveiling the new Air iPhone Air.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
From what you can tell, was it awe no jaw
dropping or is it? I mean, how are people responding?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I just think it was kind of cool, and it was.
It was a new phone, the phone we hadn't seen before.
But I feel like sometimes maybe, yeah, you want to
make sure you deliver on the hype, otherwise it might
backfire a little bit. But I did love this quote
from Steve Jobs, who also is known to have so
many good quotes, but I had not heard this one.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important
(04:14):
tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big
choices in life, because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride,
all fear of embarrassment or failure, These things just fall
away in the face of death, leaving only what is
truly important.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
We use this one for a little while. After you
put it in the morning run, we went about our day.
I think we were starting to even look at vacation differently.
We were starting to look at furniture we were ap
purchasing different We.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Still haven't picked the vacation, And I'm going to lean
on this quote in a few minutes after we're finished,
because I really do want to remember that I'll be
dead soon.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
But again, when you stop and think about the things
you're contemplating, or maybe I'll go to that lunch, or
maybe I'll do that this weekend. Ooh, do I really
feel like that all those things? Put it in the content.
Ask yourself first, or I'll be dead soon.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You know I am not overstating this. I have said
it in different forms in another podcasts, and I believe
I've certainly told you this. But this was a huge
part of my decision to be with you one hundred percent.
I leaned on my cancer journey. I leaned on my
friends who are fighting for their lives right now. And
I thought, if I knew I had a year left,
(05:23):
if I knew my time was limited, which it is,
by the way, for all of us, what would I do?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And the answer was so obvious to me.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
So I do love what Steve job said about making
big decisions or even small decisions. Remember this, remembering that
I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've
ever encountered to help me make the big choices in
life because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all
fear of embarrassment or failure. Think about how many times
we all use those things to make our decision. Expectations, pride,
(05:54):
fear of embarrassment or failure. Most people, I would say
a lot of us rely on those to make our
des decisions for us, but they all fall away in
the face of death. Steve Job says, leaving only what
is truly important. So it's a good one to keep
in your back pocket when you have decisions to make.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Man, I'm sorry, I feel heavy over here. Talk about
your decision to be with me and why you decided
to be with me. You had to do with you
thinking you were going to die.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
No, because we get caught up in what other people
will think, or what other people will feel, or how
it will make us look, or how we'll have to
do explain this to someone else. We're thinking about everyone else,
but actually what we really need and want and what
really matters.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
So I love that. Thank you, Steve Jobs.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
This next one is pretty cool too. We're all in
search of being happier, and this one comes to us
from a motivational speaker. His name is Dennis Weiteley, and
he said this happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned,
warn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living
every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
We probably have a quote at least one a week
that has some reference to living in the moment. And
it doesn't matter if that the author of it wrote
it in twenty twenty four or in the year twenty four.
It's all the same theme. And this one is cool
how we went about stacking this. I this was this
might have been my favorite one you use.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
This week, because we're all trying to find happiness in
things that you know, in things that we can purchase
or things that we can consume, and that's not where
happiness comes from, but we all do it. Ooh if
I and look, look, there'll be like a moment of
joy when I buy that new sweater that I've been
looking for.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Everybody, I'm for really, I challenge everybody who's listening to
us right now, ask yourself this question, what would make
me happy right now? Do you have an answer? Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
But see this is going to sound cheesy to be
with you right now, exactly what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So you are happy that I am happy right now?
I am, But no, the challenge they're being I think
the first thing people would go if I had this
taken care of, if the roof was finally fixed, if
we finally finished the pool, if I could get those
tires rotated before the end of the weekend.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
If I won the lottery, really.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Money, raise relationship, find the right woman, find the right man,
whatever it may be. I think we have a thing
that would make us happy. I think people have a
very quick answer. What would make you happy right now?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
You wouldn't say to be grateful, Nah, you'd never think that,
or to give grace, to let go of that anger
or that wrong I think was done to me, to
just let it go, to forgive, to just be at peace.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Actually, that is what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And truly that comes from no one else, not the
relationship you're in, even though I just said being here.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
With you, but truly it should.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
You know. The goal is to be happy with who
you are and how you treat people. And that is
what really does bring you peace because you know you
have quality relationships because of how you are and how
you treat people.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I want to say you always pitch yourself. You can
only make you happy, but you should surround yourself with
people who enhance that happiness remove anybody who takes away
from it.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, exactly, So one more time for you because this
one is just it is a really cool quote. Happiness
cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness
is the spiritual existence of living every minute with love, grace,
and gratitude.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Warn it's that worn. Yeah, man, can't you name something
in there that you love you could go put on
right now?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
In fact, I think I have put something on. It
is that this makes me so happy, but it's fleeting,
and that's the point. It's fleeting. It is it is real,
but it's momentary. And I just think this quote is
is super cool.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I love the quotes this week.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
All right, let's finish with Buddha until we get to
the break, because this is a good one to end
on for part one of this Each morning we are
born again. What we do today is what matters most,
and that just speaks to regret and living in the
past or maybe even future casting. But I do love
(10:25):
when I've had a tough day, and we've all had
tough days where you actually feel despair. Isn't it amazing
when you wake up in the morning if you can
actually look at it as a as a new page
in your book.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
It is a new chapter.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
It is a new page, and you can write whatever
you want and you can make you can change things
starting right now when you wake up in the morning.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I love I think we all do new beginnings. I
so I love my babies being born. I love weddings.
This idea of a renewal of some kind, so I
this one in particular. I think it sounds weird, but
I love mondays. I love Monday mornings because it's a
new week. It's a new beginning. We can put whatever
happened last week behind us. I love that idea, and
(11:07):
that's why I love mornings. And I know you can
relate to this as well. Throughout our long careers. You
have a bad moment, you have a bad day, you
have a bad segment, you have a bad show. You
can't wait to get back in there tomorrow and do
it again because you get to start over. It's new.
You do get another chance. And yes, every single morning
there's a new chance. The Boodha's nailing it all.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, It's about getting in that mindset because I think
sometimes we feel despair like all is loss. I'll never
be able to redo that, or I'll never be able
to fix that, or I'll never be able to outlive that.
The truth is every morning you do have a chance
to start over, and if you keep that in mind,
it creates a lot of positivity. Instead of feeling negative
and regretful, you can feel hopeful and positive. All right,
when we come back, we are going to bring you
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another quote that has something to do with death, but
I promise you it will not be morbid. It will
be inspirational. And then we have our bonus quote of
the week and it's all about kindness, something we need
more of especially this week. Welcome back to this Sunday
(12:16):
morning run where we go over our quotes of the
week and hopefully start your week off with a little
bit of inspiration. And we have our Friday quote that
we just had up yesterday.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
But this one is so good.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yes, this is about death, but I promise you.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah and uplifting death quote.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
You know what, I do think that.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Fear is so paralyzing, and so what do we fear most?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Death?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Right?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah, that's what we fear, But how about this? For you,
death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest
loss is what dies inside us while we live. What dies?
Do you think, or what has died inside of you?
What dies in most people? Do you think before you
actually end up?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Wonder? Innocent, joy, optimism? I guess a curiosity, even sometimes
a hope.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I hope is what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, that's probably be the first one.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I think that's the most devastating thing to lose. I
think when you lose hope, it's that's that is probably
rock bottom. And I have felt that in moments, and
it scared the hell out of me.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I am.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I am mostly a positive person, and I think sometimes
you're just wired that way. I think I was born
that way. But man, when you lose hope, when you
lose your hope, I don't I don't think there's a
worse feeling. And so it's just and again, all of
this is truly changeable.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
These are habits you can form.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
These are these are mental practices you can put into
your daily life where you choose hope and you choose
optimism and you choose curiosity. I think if we can
keep those things in our life. That is where the
magic happens. That is, these are kids, childlike qualities, childlike qualities.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
We love watching kids.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Sometimes when we're big people watchers, and one of my
favorite and our favorite things to do is to watch
kids skipping, laughing. I even love watching kids and their
strollers just so comfortable that they are just splayed out.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Spread eagal hands.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
They're not worried about what position their body's in or
what they look like. It's just, hey, I'm relaxing, dude,
and this feels good.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
I love that I do.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I watch children, not in a creepy way, but in
a way to remember how to be and who we
once were and how we can still. Actually, every now
and then you see older people who have that spark,
that childlike spark, and isn't it infectious?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
We see them when we're running often. But yeah, to lose,
to be alive, and to waste a single day, I
guess we have to come around to this as you
get older. And when you're younger, you think you're going
to live forever, and maybe.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
You're going to take on the world and become president
and all those things, and then suddenly none of those
wild dreams you had came true.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, but to that, what was that study we were
just seeing recently about the saddest point of your life?
Is that forty seven point two or something? Correct, it's
when you read the age I just finished up with. So, yes,
I just wrapped up the saddest year of my life, y'all.
And they say it is because it's the time where
you realize that you're too old, Like you're all your
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hopes and dreams or whatever you were going to do
in your career and you're in middle management at forty
seven and you're sad, and you also realize it's too
late to start over with a new relationship or a
new career or you think that. So you think that
and it's the most depressing point. But yeah, to to
have no to get to a point of no hope
and not be living every day like you have something that.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Oh there's you know, and I just I think I
have I have come over the hump. But I was
in it. I was in that. I mean that that
was real for me actually, and I now look at
it where you a new lease on life because when
you do get older and you are closer to the end,
just from a year's standpoint, you realize how important time is,
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and to seize the day, and to seize the moment,
and to not worry about so many of the things
you worried about in your twenties and thirties and maybe
even in your forties. And so there is this newfound
freedom that I hope we can all lean into as
we cross over that little tough stretch we have in well,
a lot of folks call it a mid life crisis.
But yes, death is not the greatest loss in life.
(16:30):
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
That's from Norman Cousins, political journalists who he died back
in nineteen ninety. But I love that his words still
live on. And let's now go with our bonus quote.
This one comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson, famous name. Never
heard this quote from him, But man, is this needed
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in the world today. You cannot do kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
What do you think, Well, I had to piece it together,
but I get it. I'm a big kindness Never pass
up an opportunity to say something nice about somebody behind
their back, right, And I always say that be kind, kind,
kind And what was the judge just passed away from
Rhode Island not too long ago. That was the TV judge.
That was his thing. He was just always kind. I
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think you can't say it enough. And you how many
times you think, well, I could have I should have
I could have said this, or I could have maybe
put that dollar in that cup for that person who
was asking that day, and then the next thing you
know that person has been injured or hurt or died
or how many times, really, We've talked about this role
(17:47):
so many times I'm meant to text to somebody or
somebody was on my mind talking about Malcolm Jamal Warner
not too long ago, and then next thing you know,
they're dead. So the opportunity, don't ever pass up any chance.
I've been yelling in screen this. I didn't know Ralph
there and I were on the same age, but I
always scream that you have to not pass up an
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opportunity when somebody is on your mind to reach out,
and certainly somebody passed on the street to say a
kind word. It will never do harm.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
And you know, there are some things in life that
you will never regret and you will never regret being kind.
I think if you can put it into that perspective,
you'll never go wrong. You'll never regret not being kind.
I even think about what happened this week with Charlie
Kirk and when his wife, when he kissed her goodbye
for the last time. What were those last words that
they said to each other, What were their parting conversation?
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What was it She had no idea, he had no
idea that would be the last time they would see
each other? Those are these are the moments you know
when I and we've been covering news intimately for the
past three decades, and that has been my major takeaway.
I don't get on a plane without telling my daughters
I love them.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
You just don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
You shouldn't walk out of the house without telling people
you love them. I mean, it's just we don't know
what the next moment brings, and so to be kind
and to express kindness is it's it's and I don't
think it's ever too late, by the way, you know,
I mean, obviously short of someone no longer being with
us to be able to express it, you can always
go back and be kind. If you make a mistake,
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if you realized you were rude. You can go back
and say I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that, and
that's that's kindness too, So thank you, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know
how soon.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
It will be too late.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
And with that everyone, thank you so much for listening
to us on this Sunday. I'm Amy Robot alongside TJ.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Holmes. Have a great start to your week.
Hey there, folks.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Sit is Sunday, September fourteenth, Darkness, Light, Steve Jobs and
Buddha Robach went deep into her bag for this week's
quotes of the Week, and with that, welcome to this inspiration.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Edition of Amy and TJ. ROBESU. You've leaned on Buddha
a lot lately with the quotes of the week.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yes, we've needed some zen in our lives, and I
think especially this week.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
This was a heavy, heavy week.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
And I actually felt a deeper responsibility funny enough finding
some of these quotes, but interestingly, the quote that we
started with the week, we had no idea what events
would be unfolding, and I actually, at one point on
Wednesday when all of the breaking news of Charlie Kirk
was hitting us and consuming all of the airwaves, and
(00:52):
we really just felt this heaviness and darkness going into
September eleventh, I kept thinking about that quote on Monday
and how that actually I went back and I read
it and I thought about it, and it was from
Martin Luther King Junior. And this was one you said
you weren't even familiar with, but MLK Junior said something
and we put it on our Monday morning run without
(01:13):
any idea of how useful it would be for all
of us for the rest of the week. MLK Junior
said this darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can
do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can
do that, you know, And what we saw from that
gunman was hate trying to drive out. And I'm not
(01:36):
putting hate onto Kirk, but they obviously didn't like what
Charlie Kirk was preaching, and so it was an example
of what not to do.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
And you're the quote. I didn't think about it until
you just related to me again repeated it. But that
idea that what we saw seemed to be a direct
response or retaliation to what somebody didn't hear in a
message from somebody else. Obviously violence cannot be the answer
to that, but darkness driving out darkness hate hate. I
(02:10):
keep going back to hearing politicians lately saying fight fire
with fire, their language they're even using. I know they're
talking about it in a legislative way. I suppose fire
with fire, but the idea that we're ramping up and
getting ready for even more battle and now a bullet
just flew and killed a guy and in the midst
(02:33):
of this battle that even some of the politicians are
saying needs to get nastier.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
And frankly, I'm not making a statement, a political statement
at all about the death penalty and how anyone may
or may not feel about capital punishment. But for the
immediate in the hours, I feel like maybe even in
it was a short period of time later, we are
already started hearing the Utah governor and other officials, I believe,
even Trump talking about the death penalty.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
The death penalty.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I mean, it's just we just keep going like we're
gonna get you back. There's gonna be retaliation, you will,
you will pay physically and suffer for this. It's just
it's just we keep ramping it up. And so God,
I just want to lean on this quote one more time.
We can't control what other people do, but we can
control what we do, and we can be the light
and we can use love to battle hate. I know
(03:21):
that sounds cheesy, but I just got I needed this quote.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
All right, next quote, this.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
One comes to us. I actually we chose this one because.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Apple had their big aw dropping event today, I mean
this week where they were unveiling the new Air iPhone Air.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
From what you can tell, was it awe no jaw
dropping or is it? I mean, how are people responding?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I just think it was kind of cool, and it was.
It was a new phone, the phone we hadn't seen before.
But I feel like sometimes maybe, yeah, you want to
make sure you deliver on the hype, otherwise it might
backfire a little bit. But I did love this quote
from Steve Jobs, who also is known to have so
many good quotes, but I had not heard this one.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important
(04:14):
tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big
choices in life, because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride,
all fear of embarrassment or failure, These things just fall
away in the face of death, leaving only what is
truly important.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
We use this one for a little while. After you
put it in the morning run, we went about our day.
I think we were starting to even look at vacation differently.
We were starting to look at furniture we were ap
purchasing different We.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Still haven't picked the vacation, And I'm going to lean
on this quote in a few minutes after we're finished,
because I really do want to remember that I'll be
dead soon.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
But again, when you stop and think about the things
you're contemplating, or maybe I'll go to that lunch, or
maybe I'll do that this weekend. Ooh, do I really
feel like that all those things? Put it in the content.
Ask yourself first, or I'll be dead soon.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You know I am not overstating this. I have said
it in different forms in another podcasts, and I believe
I've certainly told you this. But this was a huge
part of my decision to be with you one hundred percent.
I leaned on my cancer journey. I leaned on my
friends who are fighting for their lives right now. And
I thought, if I knew I had a year left,
(05:23):
if I knew my time was limited, which it is,
by the way, for all of us, what would I do?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And the answer was so obvious to me.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
So I do love what Steve job said about making
big decisions or even small decisions. Remember this, remembering that
I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've
ever encountered to help me make the big choices in
life because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all
fear of embarrassment or failure. Think about how many times
we all use those things to make our decision. Expectations, pride,
(05:54):
fear of embarrassment or failure. Most people, I would say
a lot of us rely on those to make our
des decisions for us, but they all fall away in
the face of death. Steve Job says, leaving only what
is truly important. So it's a good one to keep
in your back pocket when you have decisions to make.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Man, I'm sorry, I feel heavy over here. Talk about
your decision to be with me and why you decided
to be with me. You had to do with you
thinking you were going to die.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
No, because we get caught up in what other people
will think, or what other people will feel, or how
it will make us look, or how we'll have to
do explain this to someone else. We're thinking about everyone else,
but actually what we really need and want and what
really matters.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
So I love that. Thank you, Steve Jobs.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
This next one is pretty cool too. We're all in
search of being happier, and this one comes to us
from a motivational speaker. His name is Dennis Weiteley, and
he said this happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned,
warn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living
every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
We probably have a quote at least one a week
that has some reference to living in the moment. And
it doesn't matter if that the author of it wrote
it in twenty twenty four or in the year twenty four.
It's all the same theme. And this one is cool
how we went about stacking this. I this was this
might have been my favorite one you use.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
This week, because we're all trying to find happiness in
things that you know, in things that we can purchase
or things that we can consume, and that's not where
happiness comes from, but we all do it. Ooh if
I and look, look, there'll be like a moment of
joy when I buy that new sweater that I've been
looking for.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Everybody, I'm for really, I challenge everybody who's listening to
us right now, ask yourself this question, what would make
me happy right now? Do you have an answer? Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
But see this is going to sound cheesy to be
with you right now, exactly what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So you are happy that I am happy right now?
I am, But no, the challenge they're being I think
the first thing people would go if I had this
taken care of, if the roof was finally fixed, if
we finally finished the pool, if I could get those
tires rotated before the end of the weekend.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
If I won the lottery, really.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Money, raise relationship, find the right woman, find the right man,
whatever it may be. I think we have a thing
that would make us happy. I think people have a
very quick answer. What would make you happy right now?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
You wouldn't say to be grateful, Nah, you'd never think that,
or to give grace, to let go of that anger
or that wrong I think was done to me, to
just let it go, to forgive, to just be at peace.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Actually, that is what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And truly that comes from no one else, not the
relationship you're in, even though I just said being here.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
With you, but truly it should.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
You know. The goal is to be happy with who
you are and how you treat people. And that is
what really does bring you peace because you know you
have quality relationships because of how you are and how
you treat people.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I want to say you always pitch yourself. You can
only make you happy, but you should surround yourself with
people who enhance that happiness remove anybody who takes away
from it.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, exactly, So one more time for you because this
one is just it is a really cool quote. Happiness
cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness
is the spiritual existence of living every minute with love, grace,
and gratitude.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Warn it's that worn. Yeah, man, can't you name something
in there that you love you could go put on
right now?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
In fact, I think I have put something on. It
is that this makes me so happy, but it's fleeting,
and that's the point. It's fleeting. It is it is real,
but it's momentary. And I just think this quote is
is super cool.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I love the quotes this week.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
All right, let's finish with Buddha until we get to
the break, because this is a good one to end
on for part one of this Each morning we are
born again. What we do today is what matters most,
and that just speaks to regret and living in the
past or maybe even future casting. But I do love
(10:25):
when I've had a tough day, and we've all had
tough days where you actually feel despair. Isn't it amazing
when you wake up in the morning if you can
actually look at it as a as a new page
in your book.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
It is a new chapter.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
It is a new page, and you can write whatever
you want and you can make you can change things
starting right now when you wake up in the morning.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I love I think we all do new beginnings. I
so I love my babies being born. I love weddings.
This idea of a renewal of some kind, so I
this one in particular. I think it sounds weird, but
I love mondays. I love Monday mornings because it's a
new week. It's a new beginning. We can put whatever
happened last week behind us. I love that idea, and
(11:07):
that's why I love mornings. And I know you can
relate to this as well. Throughout our long careers. You
have a bad moment, you have a bad day, you
have a bad segment, you have a bad show. You
can't wait to get back in there tomorrow and do
it again because you get to start over. It's new.
You do get another chance. And yes, every single morning
there's a new chance. The Boodha's nailing it all.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, It's about getting in that mindset because I think
sometimes we feel despair like all is loss. I'll never
be able to redo that, or I'll never be able
to fix that, or I'll never be able to outlive that.
The truth is every morning you do have a chance
to start over, and if you keep that in mind,
it creates a lot of positivity. Instead of feeling negative
and regretful, you can feel hopeful and positive. All right,
when we come back, we are going to bring you
(11:50):
another quote that has something to do with death, but
I promise you it will not be morbid. It will
be inspirational. And then we have our bonus quote of
the week and it's all about kindness, something we need
more of especially this week. Welcome back to this Sunday
(12:16):
morning run where we go over our quotes of the
week and hopefully start your week off with a little
bit of inspiration. And we have our Friday quote that
we just had up yesterday.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
But this one is so good.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yes, this is about death, but I promise you.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah and uplifting death quote.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
You know what, I do think that.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Fear is so paralyzing, and so what do we fear most?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Death?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Right?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah, that's what we fear, But how about this? For you,
death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest
loss is what dies inside us while we live. What dies?
Do you think, or what has died inside of you?
What dies in most people? Do you think before you
actually end up?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Wonder? Innocent, joy, optimism? I guess a curiosity, even sometimes
a hope.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I hope is what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, that's probably be the first one.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I think that's the most devastating thing to lose. I
think when you lose hope, it's that's that is probably
rock bottom. And I have felt that in moments, and
it scared the hell out of me.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I am.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I am mostly a positive person, and I think sometimes
you're just wired that way. I think I was born
that way. But man, when you lose hope, when you
lose your hope, I don't I don't think there's a
worse feeling. And so it's just and again, all of
this is truly changeable.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
These are habits you can form.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
These are these are mental practices you can put into
your daily life where you choose hope and you choose
optimism and you choose curiosity. I think if we can
keep those things in our life. That is where the
magic happens. That is, these are kids, childlike qualities, childlike qualities.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
We love watching kids.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Sometimes when we're big people watchers, and one of my
favorite and our favorite things to do is to watch
kids skipping, laughing. I even love watching kids and their
strollers just so comfortable that they are just splayed out.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Spread eagal hands.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
They're not worried about what position their body's in or
what they look like. It's just, hey, I'm relaxing, dude,
and this feels good.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
I love that I do.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I watch children, not in a creepy way, but in
a way to remember how to be and who we
once were and how we can still. Actually, every now
and then you see older people who have that spark,
that childlike spark, and isn't it infectious?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
We see them when we're running often. But yeah, to lose,
to be alive, and to waste a single day, I
guess we have to come around to this as you
get older. And when you're younger, you think you're going
to live forever, and maybe.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
You're going to take on the world and become president
and all those things, and then suddenly none of those
wild dreams you had came true.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, but to that, what was that study we were
just seeing recently about the saddest point of your life?
Is that forty seven point two or something? Correct, it's
when you read the age I just finished up with. So, yes,
I just wrapped up the saddest year of my life, y'all.
And they say it is because it's the time where
you realize that you're too old, Like you're all your
(15:26):
hopes and dreams or whatever you were going to do
in your career and you're in middle management at forty
seven and you're sad, and you also realize it's too
late to start over with a new relationship or a
new career or you think that. So you think that
and it's the most depressing point. But yeah, to to
have no to get to a point of no hope
and not be living every day like you have something that.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Oh there's you know, and I just I think I
have I have come over the hump. But I was
in it. I was in that. I mean that that
was real for me actually, and I now look at
it where you a new lease on life because when
you do get older and you are closer to the end,
just from a year's standpoint, you realize how important time is,
(16:08):
and to seize the day, and to seize the moment,
and to not worry about so many of the things
you worried about in your twenties and thirties and maybe
even in your forties. And so there is this newfound
freedom that I hope we can all lean into as
we cross over that little tough stretch we have in well,
a lot of folks call it a mid life crisis.
But yes, death is not the greatest loss in life.
(16:30):
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
That's from Norman Cousins, political journalists who he died back
in nineteen ninety. But I love that his words still
live on. And let's now go with our bonus quote.
This one comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson, famous name. Never
heard this quote from him, But man, is this needed
(16:52):
in the world today. You cannot do kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
What do you think, Well, I had to piece it together,
but I get it. I'm a big kindness Never pass
up an opportunity to say something nice about somebody behind
their back, right, And I always say that be kind, kind,
kind And what was the judge just passed away from
Rhode Island not too long ago. That was the TV judge.
That was his thing. He was just always kind. I
(17:26):
think you can't say it enough. And you how many
times you think, well, I could have I should have
I could have said this, or I could have maybe
put that dollar in that cup for that person who
was asking that day, and then the next thing you
know that person has been injured or hurt or died
or how many times, really, We've talked about this role
(17:47):
so many times I'm meant to text to somebody or
somebody was on my mind talking about Malcolm Jamal Warner
not too long ago, and then next thing you know,
they're dead. So the opportunity, don't ever pass up any chance.
I've been yelling in screen this. I didn't know Ralph
there and I were on the same age, but I
always scream that you have to not pass up an
(18:08):
opportunity when somebody is on your mind to reach out,
and certainly somebody passed on the street to say a
kind word. It will never do harm.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
And you know, there are some things in life that
you will never regret and you will never regret being kind.
I think if you can put it into that perspective,
you'll never go wrong. You'll never regret not being kind.
I even think about what happened this week with Charlie
Kirk and when his wife, when he kissed her goodbye
for the last time. What were those last words that
they said to each other, What were their parting conversation?
(18:41):
What was it She had no idea, he had no
idea that would be the last time they would see
each other? Those are these are the moments you know
when I and we've been covering news intimately for the
past three decades, and that has been my major takeaway.
I don't get on a plane without telling my daughters
I love them.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
You just don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
You shouldn't walk out of the house without telling people
you love them. I mean, it's just we don't know
what the next moment brings, and so to be kind
and to express kindness is it's it's and I don't
think it's ever too late, by the way, you know,
I mean, obviously short of someone no longer being with
us to be able to express it, you can always
go back and be kind. If you make a mistake,
(19:18):
if you realized you were rude. You can go back
and say I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that, and
that's that's kindness too, So thank you, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know
how soon.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
It will be too late.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
And with that everyone, thank you so much for listening
to us on this Sunday. I'm Amy Robot alongside TJ.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Holmes. Have a great start to your week.
Hosts And Creators
Amy Robach
T.J. Holmes
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