"a wound collector in the Oppression Olympics"

 Asra Nomani, vice president of Parents Defending Education, describing a "supremist":

"Her wound is bigger than their wound—a wound collector in the Oppression Olympics."

"A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for."

"A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for."

~ John A. Shedd, 1928

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

~ Carl Sagan

quote from Inspiring Quotes email, June 26, 2021:

American astronomer Carl Sagan was known and much beloved for his research on extraterrestrial life and the cosmos, which he shared with the public in his earnest, enthusiastic manner on his 1980 TV show “Cosmos,” the most widely watched series in the history of American public television. 

In his book "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark," Sagan noted that even the simplest scientific concept, fully grasped, can elicit a spiritual experience. “The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a modest scale, with the magnificence of the cosmos,” he wrote. “When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.”

"There’s a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it."

"There’s a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it."

Bob Dylan
from song “The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar,” album “Shot of Love,” 1981

quote from Inspiring Quotes email, June 25, 2021

"I can’t go on. I will go on.”

"You must go on.

I can’t go on.

I will go on.”

~ Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

~ Edith Wharton

quote from Inspiring Quotes email, June 22, 2021:

This beautiful line comes from Edith Wharton’s long poem “Vesalius in Zante (1564)". The speaker of the poem is Inquisition-era anatomist Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), who left Spain to travel to the East in his fifties, when he could no longer bear to live and work in a society that forbade his scientific research. On his way home from Jerusalem, Vesalius was shipwrecked on the Greek island of Zante, where he fell ill and died, never to return home.

In the poet’s imagining, the censored scientist finds consolation at the end of his life in the faith that others will carry on the work he was prevented from: “What one man failed to speak, another finds / Another word for,” Wharton writes. In other words, carrying on the “light” of another — be it ideas, joy, love, or inspiration — can be just as valuable as creating it yourself.

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

~ Marie Curie

quote from Inspiring Quotes email, June 20, 2021:

Marie Curie is best known for her scientific breakthroughs in radiation and radioactivity, which won her two Nobel Prizes. Even after her husband and research partner Pierre Curie died, Marie carried on their work, introducing the first X-ray machines to the frontlines of World War I. 

She spoke these brave words upon discovering that her long-term exposure to radiation during her research had given her leukemia. Her rational outlook applies not just to science and mortality, but also to life: If we approach the unknown without fear, we’re more likely to gain understanding we didn’t have before.

"If today were the last day of your life, would you want to be doing what you're doing?"

Inc.
Steve Jobs Knew Accepting This Brutal Truth Was Essential for a Truly Successful Life
Jessica Stillman 6/16/2021

quote:

every morning Steve Jobs would look in the mirror and ask himself, "If today were the last day of your life, would you want to be doing what you're doing?"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/steve-jobs-knew-accepting-this-brutal-truth-was-essential-for-a-truly-successful-life/ar-AAL6o2p

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

 "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Political Issues at Church

"The way [Christians] fight each other here on earth, it’s going to be kind of awkward when they see each other in heaven. They won’t be able to fight anymore. They’ll probably just shrug and say, 'ok, let’s have a potluck.'”

~ Drew Dyck, Contributing Editor,
Church Humor Newsletter (email), Thursday, June 10, 2021,
christianitytoday.com

Love takes off the masks ...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/177066-love-takes-off-the-masks-that-we-fear-we-cannot

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without
and know we cannot live within. 

I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense
but as a state of being, or a state of grace -
not in the infantile American sense of being made happy
but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

~ James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

How Venus Williams copes with the press

Venus Williams - her response to the uproar surrounding Naomi Osaka’s press boycott at the French Open:

HuffPost quote: 

During a press conference after her first-round loss to Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova, Williams shared her own strategy for coping with the press throughout her career.

“For me personally, how I cope, how I deal with it, was that I know every single person asking me a question can’t play as well as I can and never will,” the 40-year-old said. “So no matter what you say, or what you write, you’ll never light a candle to me.”

“That’s how I deal with it. But each person deals with it differently,” she added.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/venus-williams-naomi-osaka_n_60b6b27ee4b001ebd46b3042