Quote of the Day: 4 August 2026 #QotD

“Emotions come when they will, not when you will them to.” -Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves
[You can learn to control your response to your emotions, but your emotions are not entirely within your control. That is not an excuse, but an explanation for what we see. The next step is where your agency comes into play.]

Quote of the Day: 3 August 2026 #QotD

“We can use our thoughts to change our thoughts—by adding distance.” -Ethan Kross
[Metacognition is useful and interesting.]

Quote of the Day: 2 August 2026 #QotD

“Because of the merits, mercy, and grace of Jesus Christ, we can return home to our Heavenly Father and live in His presence. This is only possible through Jesus Christ.” -Dale G. Renlund

Quote of the Day: 1 August 2026 #QotD

“Beauty is what you see when your eyes stop focusing on the details and you begin to see the whole person.” -Ferius Parfax (attributed), Queenslayer
[Beauty is, as the saying goes, in the eye of the beholder, but the form of beauty one chooses to behold determines whether that goes skin deep or deeper.]

Quote of the Day: 31 July 2026 #QotD

“Things just happen, one after another. They don’t care who knows. But _history_ . . . ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just . . . well, things happening one after another.” -Terry Pratchett
[History has a sense of import about it that the events may not have had at the time. It was just things happening. But, then, we learned the importance after the fact.]

Quote of the Day: 30 July 2026 #QotD

“The moment a leader allows himself to become the primary reality people worry about, rather than reality being the primary reality, you have a recipe for mediocrity, or worse. This is one of the key reasons why less charismatic leaders often produce better long-term results than their more charismatic counterparts.” -Jim Collins
[Leadership encompasses so many things that it is difficult to learn them all. Humility is hard enough on its own, but then to add leadership with it makes it that much more difficult.]

Quote of the Day: 29 July 2026 #QotD

“I feel so incredibly lucky to be American and there's not a day that I'm not grateful. We all should be!” -Karol Markowicz
[I appreciate the stories of legal immigrants and their experiences being naturalized. It is amazing how much we have to be grateful for that we simply don't sufficiently recognize because it is taken for granted here.]