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Sunday, August 17, 2025

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die. - Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 We have an obligation to live in harmony with God's creation. - Bruce Babbitt One has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose. - Leonardo da Vinci All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Martin Luther King, Jr. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 15, 2025

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. - Marcus Aurelius What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? - Albert Camus Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm, and harmony. - Thomas Merton The ground we... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. - George Bernard Shaw Look for what is, and not for what you think should be. - Albert Einstein What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. -... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise are signs of weakness or a sell-out. - Paul Kagame The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. - Brian Greene Those who can see value only in tradition,... deny man's... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding. - Harold Evans True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. - Socrates For every complex... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, August 11, 2025

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. - Robert Foster Bennett The freedom we are... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, August 10, 2025

Everything has rhythm. everything dances. - Maya Angelou To discover joy is to return to a state of oneness with the universe. - Peggy Jenkins Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, August 9, 2025

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. - Theodore H. White The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. - Rollo May Life is a sum of all your choices. -... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 8, 2025

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. - Margaret Mead Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times... Sign in to see full entry.

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