jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 12hThe Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 020
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” Douglas Adams 010
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality … Never lose a holy curiosity. Albert Einstein 030
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov 030
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Until the day comes when every father or head of a family can say wholeheartedly ‘my home’ we will not be able to say, with full hearts, ‘our homeland.’” Miguel de Unamuno 011
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. Helen Keller 020
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If a man knows what it is right to do, he does not require a formal reason. Aristotle 030
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Let us try to be parents of our future rather than sons of our past." Miguel de Unamuno 010
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"El ser humano no es un árbol frutal que sólo se cultive por la cosecha." English translation: "The human being is not a fruit tree to be cultivated only for the harvest." Emilia Pardo Bazán 000
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“The Merritt of all things lies in their difficulty“ Alexandre Dumas 020
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Traveler, there is no path; the path is made by walking.” Antonio Machado 020
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“ Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling.“ Miguel de Unamuno 000
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." Mary Oliver 020
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. Flannery O’Connor 010
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. W.C. Fields 020
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it. Jimmy Dean 122
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.“ James Baldwin 061
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026His rage passes description—the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted. J. R. R. Tolkien 030
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you. C.S. Lewis 030
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026“ Find out who you are and do it on purpose.“ Dolly Parton 020
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate. Gloria Steinem 000
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.“ Michel de Montaigne 020
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.” Rachel Carson 040
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“ You were not made to stand still. You were made to rise, begin, and do the work in front of you.” Marcus Aurelius 071
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” Theodore Roosevelt 010
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to desire what they haven't got, and cheerfully make the most of what they do have." Seneca 050
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“He who learns anatomy from books, should operate on books only.” Henri Mondor 020
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. Colleen Wilcox 041
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller 020
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we arrive safely because we sailed too close to the shore….” Sir Francis Drake. 050
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. Dwight D. Eisenhower 030
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"Representative government and trial by jury are the heart and lungs of liberty. Without them we have no other fortification against being ridden like horses, fleeced like sheep, worked like cattle, and fed and clothed like swine and hounds." John Adams 010
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. C.S. Lewis 020
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. Bob Marley 030
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026 It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville 031
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026If I won’t be myself, who will? Alfred Hitchcock 030
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa 020
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." Ralph Waldo Emerson 010
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026“Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air” Ralph Waldo Emerson 020
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another. Epicurus 010
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. Francis Bacon 040
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. Mark Twain 010
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Dr. Seuss 040
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. Francis Bacon 010
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit." Napoleon Bonaparte 020
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Seneca 010
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T.S. Eliot 010
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself." Søren Kierkegaard 030
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. Robert Frost 020
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde 010
