Quote of the Day: 12 December 2024 #QotD

“It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.” -Horace Slughorn, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
[Something to keep in mind, all year, but this time of year in particular.]

Quote of the Day: 11 December 2024 #QotD

“[L]ike fire and fusion, government is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.” -Bernardo de la Paz, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
[The power is so intoxicating that it is so tremendously tempting to seize it for yourself instead of diminishing the power of government so it isn't a threat to the individual.]

Quote of the Day: 10 December 2024 #QotD

“Loneliness didn’t tell you what you had lost, only that something was missing.” -Tom Clancy
[Loneliness is only an indication of an underlying need. It's tremendously painful, but like physical pain, it's there to signal the attention that is required.]

Quote of the Day: 9 December 2024 #QotD

“You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear.” -Major Major, Catch-22
[The fear is just the emotion. How you respond to that fear is what determines if you're acting rationally and reasonably or not.]

Quote of the Day: 8 December 2024 #QotD

“Christ’s charity—_evident in complete loyalty to divine will_—persisted and continues to persist, not just through the easy and comfortable days but especially through the darkest and most difficult ones.” -Jeffrey R. Holland

Quote of the Day: 7 December 2024 #QotD

“Why ever did I wake up!” -Bombur, The Hobbit
[It's Saturday. I'm probably going to take a nap.]

Quote of the Day: 6 December 2024 #QotD

“Story of our species. Everybody knows it’s coming, but not so soon.” -Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
[We are continually surprised by things we thoroughly expect to happen. It's so common we shouldn't be surprised, yet we are.]

Quote of the Day: 5 December 2024 #QotD

“[A]n ocean of knowledge is apt to drown you long before it educates you.” -Mark Lawrence
[Regardless of your skill in swimming through that knowledge, too. You will simply be overwhelmed by the vastness of that ocean.]

Quote of the Day: 4 December 2024 #QotD

“The thing about being embarrassed is that sooner or later you aren’t, but you remember that you were.” -Blodwen Rhysson, Raising Steam
[And hopefully that is enough to help you remember and make changes to your character so that you won't be embarrassed in the same way again.]

Quote of the Day: 3 December 2024 #QotD

“There is no sense in talking of ‘becoming better’ if better means simply ‘what we are becoming’—it is like congratulating yourself on reaching your destination and defining destination as ‘the place you have reached’.” -C. S. Lewis
[There has to be a definite and predetermined goal if we are to know whether we are becoming better or not. Otherwise, it is just an exercise in self-satisfaction.]

Quote of the Day: 2 December 2024 #QotD

“Every one sees what you seem, but few know what you are[.]” -Niccolo Machiavelli
[Everyone wears something of a mask. Whether that mask closely resembles the face beneath or not is up to the individual. But no one is entirely transparent with who they are to the world, even if only unintentionally.]

Quote of the Day: 1 December 2024 #QotD

“Ancient voices from the dust plead with us today to learn this everlasting lesson: prosperity, possessions, and ease constitute a potent mixture that can lead even the righteous to drink the spiritual poison of pride.” -David A. Bednar