quote.basket.5.16.2026
fear, civility, and change
Quote baskets are just quotes that have come up in my life (or substack) recently. If I included them in a longer form post you’ll see it linked below under the quote(s). My Quote Basket Tag has older basket posts.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
~Anatole France
No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.
~ Albert Einstein
FEAR, MY FATHER ONCE TOLD me, is simply our realisation of a lack of control. And that is why when we are afraid, sometimes the only way we can cope—the only way to dull the edge of that lack—is to put our faith in those who appear not to suffer it.
~ James Islington, The Strength of the Few
Because I joined the court that dealt with differences as friends, as we respected each other. And I don’t know how that civility – I don’t know how you bring it back in the current environment with social media and name calling and all people accusing each other of various things and animus.
In any environment, you are the environment itself. At any time, you are the time itself. Every time and every place is uniquely different. There is no need to compare it with any other time and other place. Just carefully taste the present - that is enough.
~ Tsai Chih