no. 934

 

no. 933

 

no. 932

 

no. 931

 "The literature of imagination, even when tragic, is reassuring, not necessarily in the sense of offering nostalgic comfort, but because it offers a world large enough to contain alternatives and therefore offers hope." 

Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists"

no. 930

 “I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.” 

Patti Smith, born on this day in 1946

no. 929

 War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children. 

 Jimmy Carter, December 2002, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

no. 928

 “I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

- James Baldwin

no. 927

 

no. 926

 

no. 925

 “If you want Peace, work for Justice.” 

Pope Saint Paul VI, 1 January 1972

no. 924

 

no. 923

 

Have I posted this before? Don’t care. 

no. 922

 

no. 921

 

no. 920

 "To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness." 

John Muir

no. 919

 “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” 

John Muir, who died on this day in 1914

no. 918

“I don’t rightly know what comes after this life. Heaven, hell, reincarnation, or maybe nothing…but I think we spend too much time wondering what our reward will be in the next life while we let the days of this life slip like so much water through our hands.”

Leland Dirks

no. 917

 “I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.”

Norman Thomas, who died on this day in 1968

no. 916

 “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”

 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

no. 915

 

no. 914

 “We have enough money in this world to feed every man, woman, and child. But we'll never have enough money on this planet to satiate the insatiable appetite of billionaires.”

Unknown from social media. 

no. 913

 “Chili is one of those things like gumbo where there’s an infinite number of ways to make it and almost all of them are great. Unfortunately, the great debate over chili remains: beans or no beans? For that of course, we can thank Texas, which is usually at the heart of bad food opinions. In this case, it’s the Lonestar position that beans do not belong in chili, and we can only assume that it is because of this stance that the state has been cursed with Greg Abbott.”

Jason Herbert’s article on chili (w/ recipe), “Texas Can’t Save You But I Can”

no. 912

 

no. 911

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends, and I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that.”

John Lennon 

no. 910

 

no. 909

 "Most people I've met who weren't kind to animals weren't kind to people, either. Kindness is kindness. Simple as that."

~Ricky Gervais

no. 908

 "Our greatest strength is the power of our example, not just the example of our power." 

President Joe Biden (b. 20 Nov 1942)

no. 907

 “A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”

Joseph Conrad, novelist (3 Dec 1857-1924)

no. 906

 “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. 

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”

James Baldwin

no. 905

 "The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character." 

Margaret Chase Smith, born on this day in 1897

no. 904

 

no. 903

 “The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”

 Bertrand Russell

no. 902

 “Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended.”

- Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1750

no. 901

 

no. 900

 

no. 899

“People hate their own art because it looks like they made it. They think if they get better, it will stop looking like they made it. A better person made it. But there's no level of skill beyond which you stop being you. You hate the most valuable thing about your art.“

Elicia Donze (@elicia.bsky.social) 

no. 898

 “And those who were seen dancing, were thought to be crazy, by those who could not hear the music.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

no. 897

 Ain't nothin' to it

but to do it.

~ Ronnie Coleman

no. 896

 Non-compliance is a social skill. It's only "bad" if you're looking at it from the perspective of someone who seeks to control or restrict.

If you want your kid to become a healthy person with the power to self-advocate, it's crucial they know how to stand up for themselves & say "no"

- Ruti Regan

no. 895

 "The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality."  

-- Hannah Arendt, page 9 of Origins of Totalitarianism 

no. 894

 "A ship in port is safe,

     but

           that's not what

 ships are built for."

- Grace Hopper, born today 1906

no. 893

 Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.

~ Kahlil Gibran

no. 892

 

no. 891

 "As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind--every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder." 

John Glenn, who died on this day in 2016

no. 890

 “If this is your god, he's not very impressive. He's got many psychological problems. He's so insecure, he demands worship every seven days. He creates faulty humans and blames them for his own mistakes. He's a pretty poor excuse for a supreme being.”

—Spock

no. 889

 “You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.”

 ~Fred Hampton Jr., Assassinated on Dec 4th, 1969. By the Chicago PD and the FBI.

no. 888

 “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

-- James Baldwin, who died #OTD 1987