Quotes February 09 & 10, 2022

“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Illuminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening – Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.”
Alan Moore
 
 
 
 
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
Isaac Newton
 
 
 
 
Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself.
Chinese Proverb
 
 
 
 
Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges.
Bryant McGill – Author
 
 
 
 
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.
Plutarch – Greek Philosopher-Historian-Essayist
 
 
 
 
Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
Minor Myers Jr. – 1942-2003 – President of Illinois Wesleyan University
 
 
 
 
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle – Greek Philosopher
 
 
 
 
As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
W.E.B. Du Bois,
sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, writer, editor
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
Gwendolyn Brooks,
poet, writer, educator, first Black winner of the Pulitzer Prize
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Sometimes you forget that just beyond the clouds the sun is shining.
Desmond Tutu,
Anglican archbishop, theologian, human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
They say that the world belongs to those who get up early. That’s not true. The world belongs to those who are happy to get up.
Monica Vitti,
actor
1931-2022