Quote of the Day: 20 May 2025 #QotD

“I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.” -Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
[I feel this in my bones.]

Quote of the Day: 19 May 2025 #QotD

“You can wander into debt, but you can’t wander out.” -Dave Ramsey
[A bit like a swamp. And gets your life about as complicated, too.]

Quote of the Day: 18 May 2025 #QotD

“The Atonement of Jesus Christ provides the ultimate rescue from the trials we face in this life.” -Quentin L. Cook

Quote of the Day: 17 May 2025 #QotD

“He settled somewhere between smart and stupid, perched on the very peak of the bell curve and assuming that it was the right place to be, as highest has to be best.” -Hoid, Tress of the Emerald Sea
[There are an awful lot of people like that. I've met so many of them.]

Quote of the Day: 16 May 2025 #QotD

“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.” -Lord Henry Wotton, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[I don't think we're reading as much these days, and I am certain that we, as a society, aren't thinking too much. But I haven't seen an increase in wisdom or in beauty.]

Quote of the Day: 15 May 2025 #QotD

“Mercy, detached from Justice, grows unmerciful. That is the important paradox.” -C. S. Lewis
[When there is no sense of what justice demands, then there is no way to apply mercy.]

Quote of the Day: 14 May 2025 #QotD

“It’s important to develop the habit of noticing the choices you are making.” -Sophia, The Power of TED
[Being aware of those choices is the first step to making good choices.]

Quote of the Day: 13 May 2025 #QotD

“The social cohesion that makes civilized life possible has been loosened by the systematic undermining of families and of commonly shared values and a common culture.” -Thomas Sowell
[Social cohesion is important, and we can build it through a shared culture and by making some other changes to increase trust in one another.]

Quote of the Day: 12 May 2025 #QotD

“Uninformed opinions are easy to come by.” -Susan Wise Bauer
[In fact, that's almost all you will encounter.]

Quote of the Day: 11 May 2025 #QotD

“May each of us treasure this truth; one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God. Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.” -Thomas S. Monson
[Happy Mother's Day!]

Quote of the Day: 10 May 2025 #QotD

“I love other people.

“I just don’t like them.” -Rat, Pearls Before Swine

[I feel this way sometimes. It can be grating to be in close proximity to people, even if you love those people.]

Quote of the Day: 9 May 2025 #QotD

“This is the huge modern heresy of altering the human soul to fit its conditions, instead of altering human conditions to fit the human soul.” -G. K. Chesterton
[It seems to me that we really ought to work at changing conditions rather than souls. Souls feel like something only God ought to be mucking with.]

Quote of the Day: 8 May 2025 #QotD

“At the end of the day, people have to be who they are. If you try to take that from them, you diminish them. You reduce them to children, unable to make decisions for themselves.” -Harry Dresden, Peace Talks
[You have to respect other people's agency and autonomy. Otherwise, they are merely objects to you for you to manipulate to your own amusement or purposes.]

Quote of the Day: 7 May 2025 #QotD

“… Rumor, who is born in a moment, is full-grown the next. She begins to move through the town, trailing ever more elaborate finery behind her.” -Pheris Mostrus Erondites, Return of the Thief
[A good idea of how rumors grow, mutate, and propagates. It also provides a vivid description of the same.]

Quote of the Day: 6 May 2025 #QotD

“Just be careful what you wish for, because fate might give it to you good and hard.” -Kutty, Graveyard of Demons
[Oh, it probably will. At least, that has been my experience. For the most part.]

Quote of the Day: 5 May 2025 #QotD

“The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.” -Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
[It is always tricky to predict the future. And always wise to couch those predictions in terms of what is currently known, as it is often something that is unknown that causes the prediction to be incorrect.]

Quote of the Day: 4 May 2025 #QotD

“I recognize that in the midst of the good news of the gospel, there are those who struggle, who have faith challenges, doubts, and questions that seem to have no answers. Brothers and sisters, Jesus Christ is the answer.” -Ronald A. Rasband

Quote of the Day: 3 May 2025 #QotD

“The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle, anywhere, any time, and with utter recklessness.” -Elihu Nivens, The Puppet Masters
[To be willing. But also capable. Without the ability, the willingness is useless.]

Quote of the Day: 2 May 2025 #QotD

“Fundamentally, honor was itself a debt, a code of behavior, a promise, something inside yourself that you owed to the others who saw it in you.” -George Winston (thought), Debt of Honor
[This is one way of looking at it. And if it helps you understand the concept, then take it and apply it as you will.]

Quote of the Day: 1 May 2025 #QotD

“I wish I were an evil wizard. They have all the fun.” -Jason Walker, Chasing the Prophecy
[Not sure I'd care to be an evil wizard. But it does seem that magic users get to have most of the fun. That could be because of the manipulation of cosmic powers thing. Yeah, that's probably it.]