Quote of the Day: 31 March 2024 #QotD

“Towering above all mankind stands Jesus the Christ, the King of glory, the unblemished Messiah, the Lord Emmanuel. In the hour of deepest sorrow we draw hope and peace and certitude from the words of the angel that Easter morning, ‘He is not here: for he is risen, as he said.’” -Gordon B. Hinckley
[Happy Easter!

He is risen!]

Quote of the Day: 30 March 2024 #QotD

“Imagination causes people to seek and find solutions to problems, as well as to recognize and act on presented opportunities.” -Sharlene Habermeyer
[Playful people are fun, and great to have around. They figure things out, and sometimes those things are very useful.]

Quote of the Day: 29 March 2024 #QotD

“A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.” -Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes

[Yes, it can. There are certainly other ways to pass time, but that is one of the more effective at making it seem to disappear.]

Quote of the Day: 28 March 2024 #QotD

“Confusion always helped, when it wasn’t yours[.]” -Trevor Likely (thought), Unseen Academicals
[There are ways to capitalize on the confusion of others. It is also wise to consider if there is a chance that your confusion is being capitalized on.]

Quote of the Day: 27 March 2024 #QotD

“Rigorous pursuit of the truth, without regard to criticism, has never been more essential.” -Elon Musk
[I don't know how to actually achieve this. It's hard to actually disregard criticism. But we must learn how to proceed anyway.]

Quote of the Day: 26 March 2024 #QotD

“Conquest doesn’t remove countries. It removes lines on a map. Unity requires something else.” -Nomad, The Sunlit Man
[It is hard to provide a compelling unifying message. Perhaps that is why so few try. On the other hand, it is pretty simple to divide folks by appealing to their sense of self or group pride.]

Quote of the Day: 25 March 2024 #QotD

“I was afraid of going too far; but can one ever, really, go too far with flattery? A depressing thought! One must take it to heart and avoid the pitfall oneself.” -Mark Easterbrook, The Pale Horse
[It is easy to succumb to the wiles of flattery. Too easy. Our pride is a tenacious tempter.] 

Quote of the Day: 24 March 2024 #QotD

“When others receive benefits because of their diligent choices, we cannot rightly conclude that we have been treated unfairly when we have had the same opportunity.” -Dale G. Renlund

Quote of the Day: 23 March 2024 #QotD

“Trying to understand causation is not necessarily the same as looking for someone to blame.” -Thomas Sowell
[It is essential to learn what has caused something if you want to prevent it.]

Quote of the Day: 22 March 2024 #QotD

“I’m smart enough now to know I’m stupid. That’s progress.” -Ryland Grace, Project Hail Mary
[Always better to know your limits than to proceed in ignorance.]

Quote of the Day: 21 March 2024 #QotD

“A man's friend likes him but leaves him as he is: his wife loves him and is always trying to turn him into somebody else.” -G. K. Chesterton
[And neither is wrong or a lack of love. Just a different manner of expressing love for the individual.]

Quote of the Day: 20 March 2024 #QotD

“Abusers like to isolate their victims. People who feel that they are completely alone tend not to fight back.” -Harry Dresden, Ghost Stories
[Please recognize this. If this is being done to you, take action to counteract it. You can leave the situation, or do something else. But please do something.]

Quote of the Day: 19 March 2024 #QotD

“When children say it’s time to leave, they mean, ‘It’s time to leave.’ When grownups say so, they really mean, ‘It’s time to begin thinking about leaving sometime in the near future.’” -Andrew Peterson
[Children have yet to learn to couch their meaning in polite language. Adults have forgotten that straightforward speech is sometimes warranted.]

Quote of the Day: 18 March 2024 #QotD

“[T]he trouble with ‘lessons from history’ is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.” -Lt. Juan Rico, Starship Troopers
[It's hard to know what lessons we need to know, until we need to know them.]

Quote of the Day: 17 March 2024 #QotD

“Jesus Christ will meet us where we are as we are. This is the _why_ of the garden, the cross, and the tomb. The Savior was sent to help us overcome.” -Emily Belle Freeman

Quote of the Day: 16 March 2024 #QotD

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” -Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
[It is also instructive to take a look at the people he considers to be his inferiors, and whether or not you agree with his assessment. Quite often you'll find yourself amongst the number.]

Quote of the Day: 15 March 2024 #QotD

“Very few ideas are realized through the efforts of one person, so being able to work well with others, share and communicate opinions, and collaborate on issues become essential assets in the workforce today.” -Sharlene Habermeyer
[This can be learned in many ways: sports, music, engineering competitions, etc. So, as long as you do something, you're probably on the right path.]

Quote of the Day: 14 March 2024 #QotD

“You have two seconds to improve my mood.” -Dad, Calvin and Hobbes
[These ultimatums rarely, if ever, have a positive effect.]

Quote of the Day: 13 March 2024 #QotD

“It is hard to understand nothing, but the multiverse is full of it.” -Terry Pratchett
[Tremendously so, and in places you may not expect. Like the minds of your neighbors.]

Quote of the Day: 12 March 2024 #QotD

“This hat was too cool to pass up.” -Jason Fox, FoxTrot
[Sometimes, the right accessory makes the decision for you.]

Quote of the Day: 11 March 2024 #QotD

“You can’t taste a memory without tainting it with who you have become.” -Hoid, Tress of the Emerald Sea
[Every time we access a memory we leave it slightly altered. Until, eventually, it no longer resembles the actual event. We can preserve some of that by recording it, but our memory doesn't work on a read only basis.]

Quote of the Day: 10 March 2024 #QotD

“It is not even enough to be convinced of the gospel; we must act so that we are converted by it.” -Dallin H. Oaks

Quote of the Day: 9 March 2024 #QotD

“Reading is to the mind as aerobics is to the heart and lungs. Because you have performed this emotional exercise, you will be better able to handle the little stresses in your day-to-day life.” -David Farland
[While it is true that the man who can read and does not has no advantage over the man who cannot read, the man who does read, and especially the one who reads often, has every advantage over both of them. Not only because he reads, but that the reading enhances him each time he engages in the practice.]

Quote of the Day: 8 March 2024 #QotD

“The fact that we cannot do everything does not mean that we should do nothing. But it does suggest that we need to make very sure that we have our facts straight, so that we do not make things worse, while trying to make them better.” -Thomas Sowell
[It's that second part that so many people have a hard time with. No, they are certain that as long as we are doing something (and almost certainly the thing they want to do) then things can only improve.]

Quote of the Day: 7 March 2024 #QotD

“Being in the White House Press Corps is essentially ceremonial. It entails—as all ceremonial roles do—ceaseless repetition, stultifying dullness and swollen self-regard.” -P. J. O’Rourke
[Really any 'journalist', but especially the White House Press Corps.]

Quote of the Day: 6 March 2024 #QotD

“The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard.” -G. K. Chesterton
[If you can't explain it for a child it is possible you don't understand it well enough yet.]

Quote of the Day: 5 March 2024 #QotD

“People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain’t so.” -Harry Dresden, Cold Days
[And being aware of this can help give you the chance to mitigate the effect, if you choose to.]

Quote of the Day: 4 March 2024 #QotD

“Maps of Faerie are unreliable, and may not be depended upon.” -Neil Gaiman
[Most maps are unreliable to at least some degree. But when the map is of a fictional, and notoriously changeable place ... Well, you get the idea.]

Quote of the Day: 3 March 2024 #QotD

“[A]nything broken can be mended through Jesus Christ.” -Carlos A. Godoy

Quote of the Day: 2 March 2024 #QotD

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” -Bernardo de la Paz, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
[This applies to whatever you want him to pay for, but is especially egregious when what you want him to pay for is your sense of having done a good thing for someone else by making him pay for it.]

Quote of the Day: 1 March 2024 #QotD

“[T]ime will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead[.]” -J.K. Rowling
[There's a whole lot of unpleasantness coming, and I'm not sure I want time slowed down for it or not.]