Quote of the Day: 31 May 2023

“‘Blaming the victim’ is another of the mindless clichés of our time.” -Thomas Sowell
[There are so many that a lot of people don't ever have to think at all. They coast along offering up bits of received 'wisdom' that is anything but.]

Quote of the Day: 30 May 2023

“Without our stories we are incomplete.” -Neil Gaiman
[Human beings run on an operating system comprised of stories.]

Quote of the Day: 29 May 2023

“Hope is a force of nature. Don’t let anyone tell you different.” -Harry Dresden, Changes

[So, harness it for your benefit. You may as well make use of it.]

Quote of the Day: 28 May 2023

“[I]t is only in and through our individual loyalty to and love of Jesus Christ that we can hope to be one—one within, one at home, one in the Church, eventually one in Zion, and above all, one with the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost.” -D. Todd Christofferson

Quote of the Day: 27 May 2023

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin.” -Lord Henry Wotton, The Picture of Dorian Gray
[A good pairing for the quote I shared yesterday.]

Quote of the Day: 26 May 2023

“Why let the young folk have all the dumb ideas? Not fair, I say.” -Thokk, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
[Maturity comes with age, when it does come, but that doesn't mean that one must exhibit maturity at all times and in all cases.]

Quote of the Day: 25 May 2023

“Man, you’d think the guy eating the worms would be calling the shots!” -Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
[Yeah, it seems like the one doing the distasteful thing would be the one making the decisions, but life just doesn't seem to work out that way.]

Quote of the Day: 24 May 2024

“[G]uns are used in America far more often to stop crime than to cause crime.” -Larry Correia
[Not that you'd know that unless you've been curious enough to look that up for yourself. The opposite opinion tends to be promulgated through media and common "knowledge".]

Quote of the Day: 23 May 2023

“There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.” -G. K. Chesterton
[If you aren't allowed to think a thought, how can you evaluate it and determine that it ought to be discarded?]

Quote of the Day: 22 May 2022 #QotD

“Part of being a man is putting others’ needs before your own.” -Podo Helmer, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
[I don't know that you always put their needs before your own, and more likely it's more about putting their needs before your own desires. But, there is a lot of truth to this as you develop in maturity.]Q

Quote of the Day: 21 May 2023 #QotD

“Help your children build faith in Jesus Christ, love His gospel and His Church, and prepare for a lifetime of righteous choices. In fact, that is God’s plan for parents.” -Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Quote of the Day: 20 May 2023 #QotD

“You speak with eerie calm, but your face promises violence. I feel a little frightened.” -Albert Browne, The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
[I have encountered such incongruities a few times. Thankfully, none to my lasting detriment.]

Quote of the Day: 19 May 2023 #QotD

“That was the thing about thoughts. They thought themselves, and then dropped into your head in the hope that you would think so too.” -Terry Pratchett
[It sure seems that way sometimes, doesn't it?]

Quote of the Day: 18 May 2023 #QotD

“[S]miling in the face of death is what you do when there’s nothing else left to try.” -Falcio val Mond, Knight’s Shadow
[Because, you've got to do something. Otherwise, you surrender to circumstances.]

Quote of the Day: 17 May 2023 #QotD

“Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.” -Captain Smollett, Treasure Island
[This happens so much. People imagine a whole host of positions their supposed enemies hold, and attribute those without pausing to consider whether their imaginings match reality or not.]

Quote of the Day: 16 May 2023 #QotD

“[G]roup disparities and even intragroup disparities are both large and commonplace, whether or not segregation is involved.” -Thomas Sowell
[Individuality strikes again. Darn that individual nature that continually pops up in humans.]

Quote of the Day: 15 May 2023 #QotD

“Self-awareness had its downside, for he had lost the bliss of ignorance.” -Kevin Hearne & Delilah S. Dawson
[Some things cannot be unseen. And some thoughts cannot be purged from our minds with no consequences.]

Quote of the Day: 14 May 2023 #QotD

 

“Oh, that every girl and woman would have a testimony of her potential for eternal motherhood[.]” -Julie B. Beck

[Happy Mother's Day.

No, not every woman will be a mother in this life, but they all have the potential to fill that measure of their creation, whether in this life or in the eternities.]

Quote of the Day: 13 May 2023 #QotD

“While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.” -Neil Gaiman
[The way you present yourself may not determine who you are, but it certainly influences how you are perceived and some of the opportunities you have available to you.]

Quote of the Day: 12 May 2023 #QotD

“[M]emories have a way of changing on us. Souring or sweetening over time— like a brew we drink, then recreate later by taste, only getting the ingredients mostly right.” -Hoid, Tress of the Emerald Sea
[So much of what we think we remember is actually a fabrication of memories from earlier times in our lives. Still, those memories help make us who we are.]

Quote of the Day: 11 May 2023 #QotD

“I’m interested in things that are none of my business, and I’m bored by things that are important to know.” -Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
[It is hard to know what you should know if you indulge your interests and don't exercise discipline.]

Quote of the Day: 10 May 2023 #QotD

“Statistical rarity aside, bad things will continue to happen. No amount of symbolic—ultimately useless—laws will change that.” -Larry Correia

[People who believe that we can somehow stop tragedies and atrocities through legislation baffle me. How can you so thoroughly fail to comprehend the nature of the world?]

Quote of the Day: 9 May 2023 #QotD

“The whole modern world is at war with reason; and the tower already reels.” -G. K. Chesterton
[If he thought this in 1908, one can only imagine what he'd be thinking today.]

Quote of the Day: 8 May 2023 #QotD

“You remember your history, don’t you, son? How many times did a wicked man come to power and suddenly find his kingdom too small?” -Oskar N. Reteep, North! Or Be Eaten
[Or expand it, and find it still too small?]

Quote of the Day: 7 May 2023 #QotD

“As you come to Christ and are connected to Him and our Heavenly Father by covenant, something seemingly unnatural happens. You are transformed and become perfected in Jesus Christ.” -Dale G. Renlund

Quote of the Day: 6 May 2023 #QotD

“All the effort in the world doesn't mean a damn thing if it's being spent on the wrong things.” -Jeff Putnam
[It is so easy to get caught up in working on things that don't matter. And just because you've worked hard doesn't actually make what you've worked hard on valuable.]

Quote of the Day: 5 May 2023 #QotD

“[T]he only important thing in a fight to the death is that the death should not be yours.” -Willikins, Snuff
[Yes, if you can prevent your own death, isn't it better to do so?]

Quote of the Day: 4 May 2023 #QotD

“[T]he fights that matter most aren’t won on skill. They’re won on sacrifice.” -Falcio val Mond, Knight’s Shadow
[Something to remember.]

Quote of the Day: 3 May 2023 #QotD

“Work on helping your kids see that belonging to the in crowd isn’t all it’s cracked up to be if it compromises who you are.” -Amy McCready
[But it is so hard. At those ages their view of how their peers view them dominates over how everyone else views them (for the most part.)]

Quote of the Day: 2 May 2023 #QotD

“Wisdom is sometimes given to the young, as well as to the old[.]” -Hawkeye, The Last of the Mohicans
[Sometimes. Sometimes. Other times they're dumb as a box of rocks.]

Quote of the Day: 1 May 2023 #QotD

“You have to find solutions where you can, not where convenient.” -Harry Dresden, Turn Coat

[A lesson to remember. Where there is a solution, you should seek for it. Where there is not, abandon the search.]