jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 16/10/2026“They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.” Kurt Cobain 020 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.“ Friedrich Nietzsche 030 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026"There are horizons that must be crossed, and a future to be built." Simone de Beauvoir 000 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” Henry David Thoreau 010 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James 010 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 020 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Oscar Wilde 020 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.” Michel de Montaigne 010 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 020 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness” Seneca 030 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 030 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 040 0
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 020 0
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 040 0
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 040 0
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 021 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. Helen Keller 030 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026That can’t be true. Xi is not that stupid. 000 0
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 040 0
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 0
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 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“The Merritt of all things lies in their difficulty“ Alexandre Dumas 020 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Traveler, there is no path; the path is made by walking.” Antonio Machado 020 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“ Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling.“ Miguel de Unamuno 000 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Well in fairness that’s what the Roman’s intended. 010 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." Mary Oliver 020 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. Flannery O’Connor 010 0
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 0
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 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Now that’s funny. True and appalling, but a funny way to phrase it. 040 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026“ Find out who you are and do it on purpose.“ Dolly Parton 020 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“He who learns anatomy from books, should operate on books only.” Henri Mondor 020 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. Colleen Wilcox 041 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller 020 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026 It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville 031 0
