Quote of the Day: 23 December 2024 #QotD

“You can’t keep digging up the corpse of who you used to be, Wayne. You can’t keep toting it around. Let him stay buried. Consider who you are, not who you left behind.” -Waxillium Ladrian, The Lost Metal
[There's not much to add to this. It is sufficient on its own and doesn't need any commentary from me.]

Quote of the Day: 22 December 2024 #QotD

“I bear witness of the sacred work of teaching Heavenly Father’s children the simple doctrine of Jesus Christ, which allows us to be spiritually cleansed and ultimately be welcomed into God’s presence, to live with Him and His Son in glory forever in families.” -Henry B. Eyring

Quote of the Day: 21 December 2024 #QotD

“And most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.” -Pollyanna Whittier, Pollyanna
[Depending on the framing, it can sound a bit cynical, though.]

Quote of the Day: 20 December 2024 #QotD

“Sometimes you owed it to yourself to do what was necessary, not what was easy.” -Lukan Gardova (thought), The Silverblood Promise
[Those 'sometimes' end up being an awful lot of the time. Like, almost all the time.]

Quote of the Day: 19 December 2024 #QotD

“[T]here is no fixed or predestined total amount of income or wealth to be shared. If some people are creating more wealth than they are receiving as income, then they are not making other people poorer. But if they are creating products or services that are worth less than the income they receive, then equally clearly they are making other people poorer.” -Thomas Sowell
[The error so many fall into of thinking that there is a fixed amount of wealth is pervasive. I used to believe the same, when I was a child. I have since learned the difference between value, wealth, and money. But I don't know that I could convince someone else of the things I have come to realize about them.]

Quote of the Day: 18 December 2024 #QotD

“When a child is learning a musical instrument he is learning long-term perseverance.” -Sharlene Habermeyer
[There is no easy way to get to proficiency on an instrument. You have to put in the time to develop technique and other skills. And that only matters if you have sufficient instruction to help you past plateaus, roadblocks, and discouragement.]

Quote of the Day: 17 December 2024 #QotD

“Because an insight is new doesn’t mean it’ll be useful, or even good news.” -Scott Meyer
[Sometimes, it means just the opposite. There are traditions about things for a reason. We disregard them at our peril.]