Good Thoughts From 2024
I’ve collected a few good thoughts over the past year.
“It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. Give yourself permission to be a beginner.”–Julia Cameron, “The Artist’s Way”“If you’re going to be a successful writer, you have to be willing to do the equivalent of walking down a street naked. You have to be able to show too much of yourself. You have to be just a little more honest than you’re comfortable with.”–Neil Gaiman.“Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.” –Paulo Coelho.
–Paulo Coelho“My life is my argument.”–Albert Schweitzer as quoted in “The Soul Of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves” by Alexandra Hudson.
How does one make a good argument of one’s life? The Minnesota Star Tribune has been publishing editorials about how to live in our deeply divided country. I wrote about one a few days ago; “Chose Joy”. Here are a few quotes from an editorial on the 21st; “Let’s turn our holiday spirit into a year-round campaign of defiant kindness.” by Bruce Peterson
“Good will toward men is incompatible with autocracy.
“So right here is the response to this election I have been seeking: Let’s extend our month of holiday-caliber behavior into a year-round campaign of defiant kindness”
Peterson quotes the Bible, Philippians 4:8, “Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”
This Sunday’s editorial is “Kindness with a side of gummy bears.” by Emma Nadler
“. . . there are people out in the world who care about what matters—caring for one another. This force is stronger than any political allegiance.”
“But we can transcend the vitriol, the name-calling, the various forms of hate. At our best we lean deeply into the moment and tend to each other.”
