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Cathleen Cole
@colecathleen.bsky.social
(She/Her)
Timeline cleanser | Photographer | Hobby hopper | Arizona desert dweller | Goonie adventurer
“It’s not the clear sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.” -Joseph Conrad
March 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“Cultural differences should not separate us from each other,
but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity.” -Robert Alan
March 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." -Albert Einstein
March 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” -Mahatma Gandhi
March 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.” - Nelson Mandela
March 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
― Maya Angelou
December 14, 2024 at 4:17 PM
“In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.” -Vince Poscente
December 13, 2024 at 5:11 PM
“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.” - Alberto Manguel
December 12, 2024 at 2:40 PM
“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.” - Pope Paul VI
December 11, 2024 at 8:36 PM
"In our world, you were either a bully, a toady, or one of the nameless rabble of victims." - The Christmas Story
December 10, 2024 at 1:05 PM
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” - Helen Keller
December 9, 2024 at 2:50 PM
“In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible.” -Stephen Jay Gould

What will be your act of kindness today?
December 8, 2024 at 3:57 PM
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” -Maya Angelou
December 7, 2024 at 10:08 PM
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?” - Frida Kahlo
December 6, 2024 at 3:33 PM
“We were meant to explore this earth like children do, unhindered by fear, propelled by curiosity and a sense of discovery. Allow yourself to see the world through new eyes and know there are amazing adventures here for you.” – Laurel Bleadon Maffei
December 5, 2024 at 11:26 AM
“Here in America we are descended from revolutionists and rebels—men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
December 5, 2024 at 10:11 AM
“Have the self-confidence to say no when it is necessary and the strength to stand alone. Give yourself the approval to love and respect everything that you are and will become.” -Jackie Olson
December 4, 2024 at 1:48 PM
“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
December 3, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Five years ago we bought a $200k cat and got a house for free - we underpaid. Ruby was such a good girl and we will miss her dearly. Until we meet again lil fluffball.
December 2, 2024 at 9:42 PM
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” —Frederick Douglass
December 2, 2024 at 3:22 PM
“Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.” -Mary Schmich
December 1, 2024 at 4:53 PM
“Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.” -Cesar Chavez
November 30, 2024 at 3:20 PM
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” - Jane Goodall
November 29, 2024 at 3:07 PM
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” -Oscar Wilde
November 27, 2024 at 4:47 PM
“A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.” -Rahul Gandhi
November 26, 2024 at 10:41 PM