#HavdalahQuotes: Nos. 1 - 48

A while ago I started posting this topic on my other social media accounts to cultivate a healthier and more sustainable social media praxis. But I never thought to share them on here! Well, to correct that oversight, here are all the posts since I started in order from the very first to the most recent.

NB: for anything you're curious about, Google is your friend! But I'm happy to answer more in the comments.

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"So yeah, dreams are important. And I think there are more dreamers today than ever before in the history of anything…but…they're so afraid, so many of them. Afraid to lose all their 'manageable misery.' It's all just so…so…pathetic. Pathetic…and selfish. Are you seriously telling me…that you would deny the world an exquisite painting just because the cardboard firm from down the street is hiring? That you'd stay out of politics because your mates would think you a twat? That the greatest secrets of quantum physics would go forever unearthed…because Dad thinks girls are fit only for babymaking? Does that really sound good enough for you? Really? Maddening! And don't you dare tell me I'm unrealistic. I know a body's chance of sinking their claws into a dream are fairly grim. But…not to try? To settle into the gray doldrums with nary a peep?" — Serenity Rose, by Aaron Alexovich

"Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed – in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

"But this is what you pay, Prometheus, for that tongue of yours which talked so high and haughty: you are not yet humble; still you do not yield to your misfortunes, and you wish, indeed, to add some more to them." — Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus

"Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name." — Brian Aldiss

"An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely." — Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, by Brian Aldiss

"First, I tell them what I am going to tell them, then I tell them, then I tell them what I told them." — Hilaire Belloc

"Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor." — The Masked Dyer Hakim of Merv, by Jorge Luis Borges

"Whatever happened to me in my life, happened to me as a writer of plays. I'd fall in love, or fall in lust. And at the height of my passion, I would think, 'So this is how it feels,' and I would tie it up in pretty words. I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled. For I knew I could take my broken heart and place it on the stage of The Globe, and make the pit cry tears of their own." — Issue 75 of The Sandman, "The Tempest," by Neil Gaiman

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty the ocean does not become dirty." — Mohandas Gandhi

"I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality underneath." — Khalil Gibran, The Madman

"Nights like this, I burn so bright I feel like a star... Not like a movie star. Anyone can be that. Me, I feel like the stars in the black of space — magnificent, ancient, and already extinguished." — Lovecraft Country, by Misha Green

"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance." — Thomas Huxley

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." — How to Save Your Own Life, by Erica Jong

"Peace without truth is a false one." — The Kotzker Rebbe

"You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." — Anne Lamott

"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action." — James Russell Lowell

"I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk through the rain." — Audre Lorde

"Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw." — Simon Munnery

"The highest good, like water, benefits many things, yet occupies dark places men despise." — Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu

"...the most revolutionary act of resistance one can perform is to act like your life and those of everyone you love have inherent dignity, because the world is set up to convince you that might not be true." — Emily VanDerWerff

"Calvin: you can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: what mood is that?
Calvin: last-minute panic." — Calvin to Hobbes, from Calvin & Hobbes, by Bill Watterson

"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, going where I list, my own master total and absolute, listening to others, considering well what they say, pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me." — Song of the Open Road, by Walt Whitman

"You do not know shit about fuck, my man." — Robin Williams

"When we disagreed with one another about the solution to a particular problem, we were often far more vicious to each other than to the originators of our common problem." –– Audre Lorde

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." — William James

"Kind of a bummer to have been born at the very end of the Fuck Around century just to live the rest of my life in the Find Out century." — Unknown

"If you call yourself a job creator, but you don't pay your employees a living wage, then you're not creating jobs. You're creating poverty." — Unknown

"Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution." — Aung San Suu Kyi

"What you heal within yourself you heal within your family line." — Son of Baldwin (Robert James Jr.)

"We don’t listen to each other with the intent to learn but rather the intent to reply." — @TheAuracl3, paraphrase of Stephen R. Covey

"I only debate my equals. All others, I teach." — John Henrik Clarke

"Every beginning is in time and every limit of extension in space." — Immanuel Kant

"Rain falls because the clouds can no longer handle the weight. Tears fall because the heart can no longer handle the pain." — Unknown

"Life is an open book and you're illiterate." — paraphrase of Maya Angelou

"Good leaders are always at the ready, but not always at the front." — Stacey Abrams

"It seems like the whole world is either with Israel or with Palestine. It seems like there is nobody who is actually in the middle, because the only loud people are the ones in the extreme." — @nasdaily

"For every problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." — H.L. Mencken

"They hate prejudice, because as a Jew they know what it is." — Paraphrase of W.E.B. Du Bois

"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion." — Paulo Coelho

"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." — Don Marquis

"We cannot force someone to hear a message they are not ready to receive. But we must never underestimate the power of planting a seed." — Unknown

"A fact is information minus emotion. An opinion is information plus experience. Ignorance is an opinion lacking information. And, stupidity is an opinion that ignores a fact." — The Captain, @sgrstk

"If you wish the light to be seen you have to take it into dark places. And this is certainly a dark place." — Unknown, but maybe Terry Prachett?

"I'm not asking for equal punishment. I'm asking for equal mercy." — Emily Galvan-Almanza

"It never gets easier, you just get better." — Jordan Hoechlin

"Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate." — Patricia Hill Collins

"My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours." — Albert Camus

"Never feel sorry for raising dragon slayers in a time where there are actual dragons." — Unknown ***

Take note and take care.