Quotes July 17, 2021

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Jung
 
 
 
 
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
 
 
 
 
Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world
There are twice as many knitters as golfers in North America. Still, if you walk into any airport in North America, you can find a golf magazine but not a knitting magazine, even though you can’t golf on a plane.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
 
 
 
 
“Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces—to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What’s thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it—and makes it burn still higher.”
Marcus Aurelius in “Meditations”
 
 
 
 
In summer, the song sings itself.
William Carlos Williams,
poet, writer, physician
 
 
 
 
We find the Mayan pantheon peculiar. By our standards, suicide and human sacrifice are unacceptable. We tend not to notice the peculiarities of our own culture. We accept the thousands of children who wear braces to correct their teeth, yet we consider the Maya odd for filing teeth to beautify them. Each culture defines its own idiosyncrasies and then forgets that it has done so.
Pat Murphy
 
 
 
 
Only idiots are confident. It requires a great amount of wisdom and knowledge to be confused.
Abhishek Leela Pandey
 
 
 
 
It’s a very interesting space to live in, where you’re living in the questions and the universe is slipping you answers.
Jason Sudeikis,
actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer
 
 
 
 
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
William Burroughs
 
 
 
 
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
People see God every day; they just don’t recognize him.
Pearl Bailey