May 2026 Selected Quotes
“It is only kindness that makes sense anymore.”
- Naomi Shihab Nye
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“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
- Voltaire
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“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.”
- Thomas Pynchon
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“You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy.”
— Garth Brooks
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“Focus on things that are small enough to change, but big enough to matter.”
— Kat Cole
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“Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest one you can think of, and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.”
- Harry Truman
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“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.”
— Linus Pauling
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“If you can imagine someone surpassing you, you should do it yourself.”
— Paul Graham
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“Things that have never happened before happen all the time.”
— Morgan Housel
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“Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.”
— MLK
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“A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.”
— Charles F. Kettering
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“Our purpose on the planet as humans is to find joy, to find the joy in lifting each other up, by creating solutions together instead of destroying.”
- Jeremy Hansen
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“If you don’t use your experience, your past is wasted, and you are betraying yourself.”
- Alan Shepard
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“Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn’t, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.”
- Honore de Balzac
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“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
- T.R. (aka. Teddy Roosevelt)
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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
- Douglas Adams
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“If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
- John Irving
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“Creativity is about hope and possibility. It gives us a chance to make things better.”
- Seth Godin
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“I don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.”
— Lucille Clifton
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“I like art that feels like it was made by a free person. I like to see how a person chooses things. I like art before it gets noted and workshopped and homogenized. I like art that preserves the rough edges of the person.”
- Brad Neely
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“Our feelings are our most genuine path to knowledge.”
– Audre Lorde
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“Once you die it is the responsibility of your children to keep you alive for at least another generation, if not in “the spaces between words,” then in some pretty good stories told at weddings and campfires and late night bars.”
- George Bilgere
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“We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their faces away.”
- Walker Percy
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“Labor is work that we get paid for. It’s work we wouldn’t do for free. And for most people on social media, it’s unpaid labor on behalf of the platforms.”
- Seth Godin
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“Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.”
- Jane Addams
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“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
- Lorraine Hansberry
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“The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.”
- Bertrand Russell
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“I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
- Martha Washington
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“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
- Maya Angelou