Quote of the Day: 30 June 2025 #QotD

“Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company. Black belt in karate. Spiritual guru. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can’t be given away: it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.” -Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
[An important lesson that you ought to convey to your children. I hope I am doing enough to help my kids understand this.]

Quote of the Day: 29 June 2025 #QotD

“And what if you’re different from people around you? That doesn’t make you a misfit—it makes you a needed part of the body of Christ. All are needed in the body of Christ. The ears perceive things that the eyes never could. The feet do things that the hands would be ineffective at.

“That doesn’t mean your job is to change everyone to be like yourself. But it does mean that you have something important to contribute—and that you have something important to learn!” -Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Quote of the Day: 28 June 2025 #QotD

“Hurts don’t stop, but they fade into shadows of what they were. That’s sad. That something so vital, something that bit you so deep, can be eroded by time into a story that almost seems like it happened to someone else.” -Master Yute, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
[Healing is a real thing. It makes a big difference, and only comes with time, though the amount of healing that occurs is variable and somewhat dependent upon our own choices.]

Quote of the Day: 27 June 2025 #QotD

“We tend to use the word story casually, as if stories and narratives were ephemeral decorations for some unchanging underlying reality. The deeper neurological truth is that stories do not cloak reality but create it, triggering cascades of perception and motivation.” -Daniel Coyle
[Story is the software our minds run on.]

Quote of the Day: 26 June 2025 #QotD

“If we are poor learners, our teaching will be ineffective.” -Yusuf al-Falah, The Anatomy of Peace
[It's hard to effectively teach if you aren't engaged in the process of learning on a continual basis. Even if all you're learning is about how to more effectively teach.]

Quote of the Day: 25 June 2025 #QotD

“Affirmative therapy compels therapists to endorse a falsehood: not that a teenage girl feels more comfortable presenting as a boy—but that she actually is a boy.” -Abigail Shrier
[Please let us be done with affirmative treatment of supposed transgender individuals. There are two sexes. Your body is either geared to produce large or small gametes (whether you do or not is another matter) which determines your sex. There are more or less masculine or feminine expressions of that sex, but you cannot escape being one or the other.]

Quote of the Day: 24 June 2025 #QotD

“But the reward for lots of work seemed to be lots more. If you dug the biggest hole, they just gave you a bigger shovel.” -Tiffany Aching (thought), The Shepherd’s Crown
[It sure seems that way much of the time.]

Quote of the Day: 23 June 2025 #QotD

“Indeed, thoughtless reliance on technology is a liability, not an asset.” -Jim Collins
[This is especially true as we enter an age of LLM use and reliance on what it produces rather than applying critical thinking to evaluate the potential truth of things.]

Quote of the Day: 22 June 2025 #QotD

“Our preparation to meet Jesus Christ accelerates when we stop asking what God will permit and start asking what God would prefer.” -Steven D. Shumway

Quote of the Day: 21 June 2025 #QotD

“Okay, maybe I’d been a little ratty, but there’s something about rotting corpses leaping at my face that puts me a bit on edge.” -Lucy Carlyle, The Whispering Skull
[I know it'd have a similar effect upon me. I also know I'm a bit jumpy about certain things. And death and decay are up there on my list.]

Quote of the Day: 20 June 2025 #QotD

“Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind.” -Isaac Asimov
[A very imperfect form of telepathy. Transmission is incredibly lossy and prone to errors via speech, but transmission does happen. We could certainly do worse.]

Quote of the Day: 19 June 2025 #QotD

“They can make me do it, but they can’t make me do it with dignity.” -Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
[I mean, he ain't wrong. And I often feel that way.]

Quote of the Day: 18 June 2025 #QotD

“The goal isn’t to give your kids an easy life. It’s to give them the tools to build a great one.” -Dave Ramsey
[I hope I can do this for my children. I work hard at providing them with an excellent education, and I hope they are willing to receive it.]

Quote of the Day: 17 June 2025 #QotD

“I have that effect on people. Stay around too long, and you’ll inevitably envy those who have never met me.” -Hoid, Tress of the Emerald Sea
[I often wonder is this is what people think about me. I guess I can only hope that it isn't.]

Quote of the Day: 16 June 2025 #QotD

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one[.]” -Lord Henry Wotton, The Picture of Dorian Gray
[Don't give up a friendship in anger. Laugh at them leaving instead.]

Bonus Quote of the Day: 15 June 2025 #QotD

“Dads will give you a hard truth.

We all need hard truths sometimes.” -Tyler Todt

[Happy Father's Day!

I hope your own father was a man worthy of respect and honor, but if not, there is a man in your life who filled that role. Give that person an acknowledgement of your appreciation today. He'll remember it as long as he lives.]

Quote of the Day: 15 June 2025 #QotD

“The Savior knew pretenders would try to deceive the very elect and that many disciples would be duped. We should neither believe those who falsely claim divine sanction nor venture into metaphorical deserts or secret chambers to be taught by counterfeits.” -Dale G. Renlund

Quote of the Day: 14 Junee 2025 #QotD

“Revolutions seldom cure the evil against which they are directed; they always beget a hundred others.” -C. S. Lewis
[Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.]

Quote of the Day: 13 June 2025 #QotD

“To limit yourself to only what you know or think is possible can greatly reduce your creativity.” -Sophia, The Power of TED
[Especially since there is a whole class of things that are possible that you simply don't know are possible yet.]

Quote of the Day: 12 June 2025 #QotD

“People are never more sincere than when they assume their own moral superiority.” -Thomas Sowell
[Of course, no one wants to think they might be wrong. And about moral issues it is even more pronounced.]

Quote of the Day: 11 June 2025 #QotD

“Wrestling with truth, as the story of Jacob warns us, is a time-consuming process that marks us forever.” -Susan Wise Bauer
[The effort is worth the result. At least, it is for those of us that value truth and honor.]

Quote of the Day: 10 June 2025 #QotD

“I love other people.

“I just don’t like them.” -Rat, Pearls Before Swine

[I think so, too. Sometimes. There are people I do love, though.]

Quote of the Day: 9 June 2025 #QotD

“We knew quite well that nothing is necessary to the country except that the men should be men and the women women.” -G. K. Chesterton
[Something we used to all know, and now there are a contingent who are very confused about this.]

Quote of the Day: 8 June 2025 #QotD

“Life is a most precious part of our Father’s perfect plan, and by His decree we cherish and preserve life; and we choose the continuation of life once conceived. We also treasure the gift of choice, of moral agency—helping to strengthen righteous choices approved by God that bring eternal happiness.” -Neil L. Andersen

Quote of the Day: 7 June 2025 #QotD

“You can’t go around making people’s choices for them. Not if you love them.” -Harry Dresden, Peace Talks
[It's hard to respect them that way sometimes, though. I love them and I want the best for them, and if they'd just choose to do things the way that I see them I think they could be so much happier in the long run. It doesn't actually work that way though.]

Quote of the Day: 6 June 2025 #QotD

“I have lived through too many winters in the mountains, seen too many men willing to fight to the death over a spilled cup of wine, to think dying for a cause makes that cause just.” -Helen, Queen of Eddis, Return of the Thief
[There are, however, causes that are worth dying for. But to mistake a cause someone has died for as one that is worthy of dying for is to mistake the effect for the cause.] 

Quote of the Day: 5 June 2025 #QotD

“On most civilized worlds science was a process involving observable data and testable hypotheses, not a religion based on feeling superior toward anyone with differing political beliefs.” -Tom Stranger (thought), A Murder of Manatees
[Imagine that. A process of discerning truth and not a religion? How could such a thing be?]

Quote of the Day: 4 June 2025 #QotD

“Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” -Kingsley Shacklebolt, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
[Some may interpret this as a political statement, but, in actuality, it is a moral statement.]

Quote of the Day: 3 June 2025 #QotD

“Control the communications of a country and you control the country.” -Andrew Nivens, The Puppet Masters
[If people are only allowed certain information and can only transmit information that is approved then those people will not be able to formulate certain thoughts.]

Quote of the Day: 2 June 2025 #QotD

“It was a magic word, trust. It meant that you had an obligation to the people who gave it to you. It meant that they believed what you said about yourself, and that you had to prove that it was real, not merely to them, but to yourself as well.”-George Winston (thought), Debt of Honor
[Just remember that it can be destroyed in a moment. A hugely important, and yet terribly fragile concept.]

Quote of the Day: 1 June 2025 #QotD

“We will, on the Day of Judgment, stand before the Savior, face to face. It will be a time of great joy for those, in this life, who have drawn close to Him in His service and can eagerly anticipate to hear His words: ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant.’” -Henry B. Eyring