“Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.” – Buddha

From “Me Too, 365,” by Arnold Kunst

15 July

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“No one has ever become poor by giving.” - Anne Frank

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

15 July

“Make your apology specific, and sincere, then get on with life – leave the dead to bury the dead. Apologies are great inventions because they clear the emotional decks for action. Otherwise when the action comes, you’re tripping over all those coils of rope that should have been stowed away when you had the chance.” – Arnold Kunst

“It’s a rare person indeed who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.” - Anonymous

 From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst 

July 15 
“The country in the years during the run-up to the Civil War seemed to have completely lost all capacity to listen. Perhaps the most striking example occurred in 1856 when Senator Charles Sumner delivered a rousing anti-slavery speech in the US Senate that played well among his abolitionist supporters in his home state of Massachusetts. Unfortunately that speech infuriated the South – and induced a relative of the Southerner whose honor Sumner had besmirched to enter an almost empty senate chamber and attack Sumner as he sat at his desk, beating him with his walking stick with sufficient vehemence that Sumner took years of recuperating before he could return to his senatorial duties. And while Sumner was recuperating, his assailant received any number of replacement walking sticks from well-wishing fellow Southerners – to be used again in case any other Yankee hypocrite stepped out of line!” - Arnold Kunst 

“Patience is the infallible hallmark of greatness, abiding as the everlasting hills.” - Arnold Kunst

From “Me Too, 365,” by Arnold Kunst

14 July

“As a woman of color, we're raised to know we have to be twice as good.” – Tracee Ellis Rose

“Genius has limitations; stupidity is boundless.” - Anonymous

  

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

14 July

Mozart rendered human emotion musically with ease; he had incomparable ability as a pianist and also, would you believe, at billiards. But his wife had to cut the meat at the dinner table – give HIM the knife and fork to do the needful for those at his table and he was all elbows and kneecaps.

The moral: nobody’s genius [including yours and mine] is universal.

“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves” - Thomas Alva Edison

 From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

July 14

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” - Abraham Lincoln

“One of life’s greatest tragedies, one of its yawning blasphemies, is the unchallenged conviction that my efforts aren’t worth making.” - Anonymous

From “Me Too, 365,” by Arnold Kunst

13 July

 “If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.” – Harriet Tubman