Two Thoughts (15 - 21 September)
Sunday, 15 September
Two thoughts from Ezra Taft Benson
"Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage."
"Pride... limits or stops progression. The proud are not easily taught. They won't change their minds to accept truths, because to do so implies they have been wrong."
Monday, 16 September
Two thoughts from Oliver Burkeman
“Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities – for success, for happiness, for really living – are waiting.”
“Is it other people that bother me? Or the judgment I make about other people?”
Tuesday, 17 September
Two thoughts from Roberto Bolaño
“I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.”
“If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.”
Wednesday, 18 September
Two thoughts from William Gaddis
“Most people are clever because they don’t know how to be honest.”
“Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.”
Thursday, 19 September
Two thoughts from Sherwood Anderson
“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
“The thing, of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.”
Friday, 20 September
Two thoughts from Bernard Berenson
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
“Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.”
Saturday, 21 September
Two thoughts from Vasily Grossman
“There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil...so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.”
“I don’t believe in your “Good.” I believe in human kindness.”
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dear jim,
great quotes as always! enjoyed these particularly this week:
Oliver Burkeman:
“Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities – for success, for happiness, for really living – are waiting.”
“Is it other people that bother me? Or the judgment I make about other people?”
William Gaddis:
“Most people are clever because they don’t know how to be honest.”
Bernard Berenson:
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
“Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.”
thanks for sharing!
love
myq