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Quotes July 15, 2021

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
Thomas Jefferson
 
 
 
 
Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
William Carlos Williams,
poet, writer, physician
 
 
 
 
Don’t be afraid to give up the good and go for the great.
Steve Prefontaine – 1951-1975 – American Long-Distance Runner
 
 
 
 
The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.
Carl Sagan
 
 
 
 
When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.
Joseph Campbell
 
 
 
 
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader’s daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
John le Carré
 
 
 
 
The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is: I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be outworked, period. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me. You might be all of those things. You got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there’s two things: You’re getting off first, or I’m going to die. It’s really that simple.
Los Angeles Dodgers baseball player Will Smith
 
 
 
 
It is…highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Ian Tattersall
 
 
 
 
All history is the history of unintended consequences.
T. J. Jackson Lears
 
 
 
 
“Confidence isn’t optimism or pessimism, and it’s not a character attribute. It’s the expectation of a positive outcome.”
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
 
 
 
 
We of the Sabotage Bureau remain legalists of a special category. We know that too much law injures a society; it is the same with too little law. One seeks a balance. We are like the balancing force among the Gowachin: without hope of achieving heaven in the society of mortals, we seek the unattainable. Each agent knows his own conscience and why he serves such a master. That is the key to us. We serve a mortal conscience for immortal reasons. We do it without hope of praise or the sureness of success.
The early writings of Bildoon, PanSpechi Chief of BuSab
Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment
 
 
 
 
Oh, I’m not just going too far, I’ve arrived.
José Saramago
 
 
 
 
“What we do in life, echoes in eternity.”
Marcus Aurelius
 
 
 
 
I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman.
Sara Coleridge,
poet, writer, translator
 
 
 
 
To put it mildly, those who occupy the towering heights of American culture don’t look kindly on traditional religion … Why choose traditional religion in today’s culture?
You can get rid of tradition; you can scrap all the traditions you want. But traditions are the answers we have forgotten. Traditions are the answers to questions we have forgotten we even had to ask.
Rabbi Dr. Ari Lamm and Nellie Bowles, Choosing My Religion, Good Faith Effort Podcast

Military July 11, 2021

Military.com: Iwo Jima Veteran Turns 100; Thought He Wouldn’t Survive War; States Gear Up for Fight to Keep the National Guard Out of War; A Vietnam Vet Advocates for Wounded Warriors in ‘The Drummer’ and more ->
 
 
 
 
Task & Purpose: Army chaplain facing court martial over more than a dozen sexual assault charges He is the second religious leader at Fort Leonard Wood to face chid sex assault charges this year.; The Biden administration is still grappling with how and where to evacuate Afghan interpreters “We have not set a cap, we’ve also not set a floor.” And more ->
 
 
 
 
STORIES FROM NORTHERN CANADA AND ALASKA: Turner Timberlake and Our Obsession with the Alcan
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Quotes June 01, 2021

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen – 1828-1906 – Norwegian Playwright
 
 
 
 
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson – 1850-1894 – Scottish Novelist
 
 
 
 
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896 – American Author
 
 
 
 
Bowing helps to eliminate our self-centered ideas.
Shunryu Suzuki
 
 
 
 
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
Alan Watts
 
 
 
 
We listen to views that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard.
Adam Grant
 
 
 
 
Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.
Rumi
 
 
 
 
All serious daring starts from within.
Eudora Welty
 
 
 
 
Where thou art, that is home.
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
If the doors of perception were cleansed,
everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake
 
 
 
 
Leave the door open to the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
Rebecca Solnit
 
 
 
 
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
 
 
 
In every moment the Universe is whispering to you
Denise Linn
 
 
 
 
The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
 
 
 
 
People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action.
Moshe Feldenkrais
 
 
 
 
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end
Ursula K. Le Guin
 
 
 
 
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
J.B. Priestley
 
 
 
 
The practice of Blessing is a simple way to develop a constantly centered awareness. It is also a tool for growing in Universal Love and avoiding judgment.
Pierre Pradervand

Music March 24, 2021

 
 
 
 

Quotes March 18, 2021

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula Le Guin
 
 
 
 
You can’t use an old map to explore a new world.
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?
Shams Of Tabriz
 
 
 
 
Be the one who, when you walk in,
Blessing shifts to the one who needs it most.
Even if you’ve not been fed,
Be bread.
Jelaladdin Rumi
 
 
 
 
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
Charles Bukowski
 
 
 
 
Food isn’t just generic energy–it’s molecular information. In addition to fueling the mitochondrial powerhouses, food tells our cells what to do and serves as building blocks for hormones, brain chemicals, and cell membranes.
Cynthia Li
 
 
 
 
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don’t go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
Rumi
 
 
 
 
My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.
Oprah Winfrey
 
 
 
 
Hope is a decisive element in any attempt to bring about social change in the direction of greater aliveness, awareness, and reason. But the nature of hope is often misunderstood and confused with attitudes that have nothing to do with hope and in fact are the very opposite.
Erich Fromm
 
 
 
 
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
 
 
 
 
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
Viktor Frankl
 
 
 
 
Failure doesn’t mean the game is over, it means try again with experience.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Be kind with your words. They matter.
Unknown

907 Updates February 26, 2021

KTUU Alaska’s News Source: ‘It’s not just me’: Rasmussen says sexist remarks by fellow Anchorage lawmaker highlight culture women face; AWAIC shelter adds new beds with completed expansion; 36th Ave. & New Seward Hwy. interchange plan seeks public input; Pipeline Vocal Project hopes to breathe new life into the vocal scene in Alaska and more ->
 
 
 
 
KTOO Alaska’s New Source: LISTEN: In Alaska crab boat’s deadly sinking, expert witnesses point to flawed stability calculations; ‘Something pure and good’: Anchorage hospital workers step up to cuddle Alaska’s tiniest babies; For Alaska’s railbelt, electric vehicle charging corridor may be on road to reality and more ->
 
 
 
 
KYUK Public Media for Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta: Outside Investment Firm Acquires Grant Aviation; Indigenous Leaders Hopeful US Rep. Debra Haaland Will Protect Yuuyaraq and more ->
 
 
 
 
Alaska Native News: Shooting Shotgun off Porch and Threatening Neighbor with the Weapon Lands Wasilla Woman in Jail; Malaspina Glacier Gets Up and Goes; This Day In Alaska History February 26th, 1917 and more ->
 
 
 
 
Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: Alaska Law Enforcement agencies arrest suspect in December drug shooting; Fairbanks school district to receive new fleet of buses and more ->
 
 
 
 
The Arctic Sounder: Reflections on Alaska’s last serum run; George, Schachle win Iron Dog; Internet firms look to space for the Last Frontier and more ->
 
 
 
 
Suzanne Downing, Editor, Must Read Alaska’s Friday Newsletter, in honor of Bud Fate edition
 
 
 
 
Craig Medred: Winning losers
 
 
 
 

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Quotes November 02, 2020

Quotes courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog

“By changing nothing, nothing changes.”
Tony Robbins

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
Wayne W. Dyer

“A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.”
Spanish Proverb

“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”
Lee Iacocca

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”
Jacob M. Braude

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
Henri Bergson

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
Oprah Winfrey

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs

“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
Walt Disney

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
Michael Jordan

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by discomforts.”
Arnold Bennett

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

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Rumi

“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”
Martin Luther

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
George Bernard Shaw

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Reinhold Niebuhr

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
Paulo Coelho

Quotes October 18, 2020

Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness

 
 
“There are unheralded tipping points, a certain number of times that we will unlock the front door of an apartment. At some point you were closer to the last time than you were to the first time, and you didn’t even know it. You didn’t know that each time you passed the threshold you were saying good-bye.”

“Our streets are calendars containing who we were and who we will be next.”
Colson Whitehead, The Colossus of New York
 
 
 
 
“What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a red horse in the vacant lot at Serrano and Charcas, a bar of sulphur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?”
Jorge Luis Borges, “The Witness”
 
 
 
 
“Sartaj was thinking about how uncanny an animal this life was, that you had to seize it and let go of it at the same time, that you had to enjoy but also plan, live every minute and die every moment.”
Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games
 
 
 
 
“Humor is the antidote to overthinking. It’s a way of saying that life is paradoxical. Humor contains contradictions; it does not resolve them but revels in them. It says that the right way to exist among the contradictions, paradoxes, and absurdities of life is to cope with them through laughter.”
Bob Mankoff, How About Never: Is Never Good For You?
 
 
 
 
“The fire had burned to embers, the company was gone. We walked in the icy darkness with the old, limping dog. Nothing on the empty road, no cars, no sound, no lights. The year turning, cold stars above. My arm around her. Feeling of courage. Great desire to live on.”
James Salter, Burning the Days
 
 
 
 
“The brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy.”
Thérèse de Lisieux, Story of a Soul
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it’s different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.”
Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
 
 
 
 
“The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
Carl Jung, Psychological Types
 
 
 
 
“We can only know others by ourselves.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays
 
 
 
 
“The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.