Good Morning Digital Neighbors & Friends! Happy Wednesday! More quotes from Forbes to stir into your coffee or other beverages. I hope you have a great day ahead of you.
The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into proper order. Before putting their States into proper order, they regulated their own families. Before regulating their families, they regulated themselves. Before regulating themselves, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before being sincere in their thoughts, they tried to see things exactly as they really were. - Confucius
Do people love truth? On the contrary, mankind has employed its subtlest ingenuity and intelligence in efforts to evade or conceal it.… Do human beings love justice? The sordid travesties in our courts year after year suggest that they love justice only for themselves. Do they love peace? Can anyone seriously ask the question? Do they love freedom? Only for those who share their views. Love of peace, freedom, justice, truth—this is a myth that has been created by the folk mind, and if the artist does not look behind the myth to the reality, he will indeed wander amid the phantoms which he creates. - Vardis Fisher
Apparently Confucius reads Jordan Peterson. Common sense has a way of bubbling up in humanity to be embraced by some, unknown by many and ignored deliberately by even more when it is discovered to be difficult. Confucius is one of those advocates for people and society, begin with your own thoughts and attitude. Want to change the world? Get your crap together, your house in order, your own life under the sway of personal discipline.
Vardis Fischer is not so well known, but I am aware of him without realizing it. A writer of many histories and fictions who some of us may have encountered in the movie Jeremiah Johnson which was based on a fusion of the stories of Crow Killer: the Saga of Liver Eating Johnson and Raymond Thorp and Mountain Man: A Novel of Male and Female in the Early American West by Vardis Fisher. Fisher's quote is much more sobering. Between the idealism of Confucius and the skeptical pessimism of Vardis Fisher lies either quest to rise above your limitations and experiences or your resignation to what you believe is inescapable. For the resigned and imprisoned there is always Netflix or Prime, surely there is something binge worthy. 😉 Seriously - The Unforgivable is really good, Netflix for those still subscribed. 👀 Anyway, back to resigned imprisonment, I mean boredom, breaking out is possible. Your escape methods may vary, you don't even have to leave home to escape, just be more deliberated about what you let in your home or your head.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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
Old Barn by Alan L Graham
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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I strongly suggest combining celebrations for this with National Name Your Poison Day and National Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day. Think I'll have to wash a custard doughnut down with a cold beer later.
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