Quote of the Day: 12 December 2025 #QotD

“Don’t rush your most important work. Allow it instead to unfold along a sustainable timeline, with variations in intensity, in settings conducive to brilliance.” -Cal Newport
[Allowing things to develop organically can be hard, and at times doesn't fit with the timeline we'd like to experience. However, it's probably a better result when we do allow it to happen.]

Quote of the Day: 11 December 2025 #QotD

“Each of you imagines this book, and its characters, a little differently—each of you puts your own stamp on it, making it yours. I don’t think a story is quite finished until that has happened to it—until the dream in my head has become a reality (even if briefly) in yours.” -Brandon Sanderson
[Every book is actually an innumerable quantity of very similar stories. Each one incomplete until it occupies the mind of the reader. No two people will imagine a story exactly the same way. Even listeners of audio books will think of some things differently than others.]

Quote of the Day: 10 December 2025 #QotD

“There is this, boy. And you should remember it in every situation, not just this one. Learning is never wrong.” -Chade, Assassin’s Apprentice
[This is in contrast with how people may treat you for learning. Especially that which they deem to be forbidden knowledge. Expect denunciation for that.]

Quote of the Day: 9 December 2025 #QotD

“It is very strange that ‘banned books’ has become a marketing gimmick to sell those same books to a clientele convinced they are doing something subversive when they are in fact engaged in the most establishment-compliant act one could possibly do.” -Eric M Hamilton
[A lot of the banned books displays at libraries and bookstores are just advertising the fact that those books are not banned. How could they be if they're right there available for checkout or purchase?]

Quote of the Day: 8 December 2025 #QotD

“He had spent a lot of time thinking about himself, and had come to the conclusion that he was definitely not self-absorbed.” -Scott Meyer
[That seems about right. That is what most people would think, isn't it?]

Quote of the Day: 7 December 2025 #QotD

“Like Naaman resisting the River Jordan or the children of Israel refusing to look at the serpent on the staff, how easy it is for us to dismiss the source of our redemption because the ingredients and the instruments seem embarrassingly plain.” -Jeffrey R. Holland

Quote of the Day: 6 December 2025 #QotD

“If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad.” -C. S. Lewis
[Perspective is everything. And this life is only temporary.]