"Some luck lies not in getting what you want but getting what you have, which — once you take a good look — you may realize is what you would’ve wanted if you had only known. I’m not sure that sentence is grammatically correct but it’s true."
~ Garrison Keillor
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire."
~ Gustav Mahler
Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer and conductor, 1860-1911
"Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough."
~ Vincent van Gogh, Dutch post-impressionist painter
“Reorganisation, irrespectively of God or king, by the worship of Humanity, systematically adopted. Man’s only right is to do his duty. The Intellect should always be the servant of the Heart, and should never be its slave.“
— Auguste Comte
Title Page A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856)
Source: https://quotepark.com/authors/auguste-comte/
(note: Warren Buffet quoted Comte in in a 1985 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter regarding Berkshire’s failing textile businesses: “I ignored Comte’s advice – ‘the intellect should be the servant of the heart, but not its slave’ – and believed what I preferred to believe.”)
“Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.”
— Auguste Comte
https://www.azquotes.com/author/3165-Auguste_Comte
“But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.”
— Auguste Comte
https://www.azquotes.com/author/3165-Auguste_Comte
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt, philanthropist and First Lady of the United States from March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945, during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office
“When the whole world is silent,
even one voice becomes powerful.”
“Do not wait for someone else to come and speak for you.
It’s you who can change the world.”
~ Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl's education advocate who, at the age of 17 in 2014, became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban
“There is nothing the resurrection won’t cure.”
Rev. Dr. Timothy Keller, Hope in Times of Fear
From Antoine de Saint-Exupery's Wind, Sand, and Stars.
Saint-Exupery is best known for his book, The Little Prince.
He flew in the 1920s and 1930s for what later became Air France. In those days,
accidents were frequent. Saint-Exupery writes about the experience of showing
up at the airfield and hearing that one more friend had died.
Bit by bit, nevertheless, it comes over us that we shall
never again hear the laughter of our friend, that this one garden is forever
locked against us. And at that moment begins our true mourning, which, though
it may not be heartrending, is still slightly bitter. For nothing, in truth,
can replace that companion. Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing
can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of
quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted
an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the
oak.
So life goes on. For years we plant the seed, we feel
ourselves rich; and then come other years when time does its work and our
plantation is made sparse and thin. One by one, our comrades slip away, deprive
us of their shade. 4
4Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand, and Stars (London, UK: The Folio Society, 1990), 26.
Tom Brady reflects on his NFL Combine performance 17 years ago
abc, WCVB NewsCenter 5, FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Updated: 9:24 PM EST Mar 3, 2017
https://www.wcvb.com/article/tom-brady-reflects-on-his-nfl-combine-performance-17-years-ago/9090781
quote:
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady reflected back on his own Combine experience, and shared his thoughts with the participants.
“This is what they said about me then,” Brady wrote on Facebook. “Poor build, skinny, lacks great physical stature and strength, lacks mobility and ability to avoid the rush, lacks a really strong arm, can’t drive the ball downfield, does not throw a really tight spiral, system-type player who can get exposed if forced to ad lib, gets knocked down easily.”
Brady was selected with the 199th pick in the 2000 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots, and 17 years later, he is a five-time Super Bowl champion, four-time Super Bowl MVP and two-time NFL MVP.
“As Julian Edelman always reminds me… 'You can prove 'em right or you can prove 'em wrong,'" Brady wrote, as he wished the Combine participants the best in their performance.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53311867
BBC News - US & Canada
Cancel culture: What unites young people against Obama and Trump
Published 7 July 2020
quote:
Obama: 'The world is messy'
Last October [2019], former President Barack Obama challenged cancel culture and the idea of being "woke" - a term describing being alert to injustices and what's going on in the community - saying change was complex.
"I get a sense among certain young people on social media that the way of making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people," Mr. Obama said.
"The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws."
“Never let THEM define YOU‼️” @tb12sports
~ Tom Brady, age 43, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback, after winning Super Bowl LV held on February 7, 2021, as well as winning Super Bowl MVP
“My daddy was a farmer. He used to say the only difference between an adventure and an ordeal is how you look at it.”
~ Cindy, age 83, Feb. 17, 2021, on surviving the storms, freezing weather, and power outages in Texas
“There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.”
~ Robert Graves, British historical novelist, classicist, and critic
"I hate writing. Perhaps this is because I write so badly.
The tool I use most frequently is the waste paper basket. But I still write. Why I wonder? To be practical, money has something to do with it I imagine.
But for one so far from the bestseller lists there must be many easier ways of staying alive. I think the basic answer is that a writer must write. To write is difficult. Not to write is sheer agony. I don’t like agony, so I write.
And I write in the hope that what I write will be of interest and of help to those who read. I write on biblical topics for these seem to me far and away the most significant. I hope that writing and these topics will bring writer & reader nearer to God."
~ Leon Lamb Morris (1914–2006),
Australian New Testament scholar, Anglican priest, University of Cambridge PhD on The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross
“The pastor should love his people extravagantly.”
~ Robert C. Anderson, The Effective Pastor: A Practical Guide to the Ministry
(Chicago: Moody Publishers, 1985), 365.
"The propitious smiles of heaven cannot be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right that heaven itself has ordained."
~ George Washington
Do not accuse yourself that your tribulation and your woe is all your fault; for I do not want you to be immoderately depressed or sorrowful. For I tell you that whatever you do, you will have woe. . . . The remedy is that our Lord is with us, protecting us and leading us into the fullness of joy.
—Julian of Norwich (1342-1416?), Revelations of Divine Love, Long Text 77
“When the Trinity turns toward the world, the Son and the Spirit become, in Irenaeus’s beautiful image, the two arms of God by which humanity was made and taken into God’s embrace.”
Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996), 128.
“In his will is our peace.”
― Dante, The Divine Comedy, Paradise
following quote from
https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/paradiso/paradiso-3/
E ’n la sua volontade è nostra pace:
ell’è quel mare al qual tutto si move
ciò ch’ella cria o che natura face.
(Par. 3.85-87)
And in His will there is our peace: that sea
to which all beings move—the beings He
creates or nature makes—such is His will.
When, like Abraham, you are called to go out, not knowing where you are going:
“You have the reality of the living Christ himself as your north star.
You have the scriptures, which serve you not as maps but as a compass.”
—Thomas W. Gillespie (1928-2011),
President of Princeton Theological Seminary 1983-2004,
June 2, 1986 commencement address
https://commons.ptsem.edu/id/02266
