After weeks of being cooped up at home with the same people, we’re getting on each other’s nerves. It’s hard not to focus on our own anxieties and needs and lash out at those around us, forgetting that they, too, have anxieties and needs. Today’s Thursday Thought quote is something to keep in mind.
Feeling uncertain and nervous about life in general right now? You’re not alone in this. Today’s Thursday Thought quote offers comforting possibilities.
So many of us are sheltering in place, feeling on the edge of depression. Being alone for a long time brings our spirits down. On the other hand, so many other people we know are going through the same thing, and we do have phones, email, Zoom, Messenger, and lots of other modes of communication. Let today’s Thursday Thought quote get you going.
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” — Booker T. Washington
As so many of us are living in forced isolation, away from face-to-face contact with other humans, we have more time to think. Which isn’t always a good thing, because we allow fears to creep in, fear of an unknown future for us and out loved ones. I offer today’s Thursday Thought quote to give you an antidote–a way to expand your life rather than to allow it to contract.
Some days we get down on ourselves, thinking we don’t matter, that we’re not doing anything important. Today’s Thursday Thought quote is for those days.
You do things often that you hope will be of value. Then you wonder if it was worth it, because you don’t see change or whatever positive results you hoped for. Today’s Thursday Thought quote is for you.
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” — Warren Buffett
I switched my Thursday Thought to today because my dog insisted I honor her on yesterday’s National Love Your Pet Day. So, here’s today’s Day-After-Thursday-Thought quote. It struck me because of all the hatred, manipulation, lies, half-truths, and distrust I’m seeing in my world today, especially in my country.
“This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one’s tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind. We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate.” (From Martin Luther King’s speech “When Silence Is Betrayal,” given at Riverside Church, New York, April 4, 1967.)
Maya Angelou contributed a lot, through her poetry, songs, civil rights advocacy–and just understanding human nature. Today’s Thursday Thought quote offers a bit of her insight.
Today’s Thursday Thought quote is an important, yet basic, message from three of the world’s great religious leaders.
This is a day we remember and honor Fred Korematsu, an internee who challenged the Japanese-American internment during WWII. So it’s appropriate that today’s Thursday Thought be a quote from him. It’s an important warning about our treatment of all ethnic, religious, and even socio-economic groups today.
