- Each day, you uplift another person; your day was worthwhile.
- Each day, you encourage another person to cope; your day was worthwhile.
- Each day, you encourage another person to problem-solve; your day was worthwhile.
- Each day, you cheer up another person so they keep moving forward; your day was worthwhile.
- Each day, you inspire another person to focus on the good they can do rather than the bad that was done to them; your day was worthwhile.
© 2025 by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice. Daily quotations cover topics crucial to your emotional and behavioral health, including emotional and psychological skills, psychotherapy, psychology, philosophy, spirituality, General Semantics, Eastern psychology and philosophy, meditation, flow, social commentary, responsibility, authenticity, identity, and the self. Visit https://kevinfitzmaurice.com or Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Google Play for Kevin's 70 books & audiobooks.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Have a Good Day: 04-30-2025
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Internalizing Problems Is Self-Defeating: 04-29-2025
- The more naive a person is, the more they internalize outward problems.
- The more sophisticated a person is, the more they internalize outward problems.
- The more introverted a person is, the more they internalize outward problems.
- The internalization of outward problems produces the dilemma of being responsible for what you cannot control.
- The internalization of outward problems produces a god-complex because you believe your thinking is causing reality.
- The internalization of outward problems produces an internal witch-hunt to discover what is wrong with you that causes you to create so many problems.
Monday, April 28, 2025
Externalize at Your Own Peril: 04-28-2025
- The more foolish a person is, the more they externalize problems.
- The more irresponsible a person is, the more they externalize problems.
- The more educated a person is, the more they externalize problems for the lower classes.
- The person who often externalizes problems will become outward-directed instead of inward-directed, which will dimmish their life and personal power.
- By definition, externalized problems are out of your control, such that you will likely wind up whining, blaming, and damning in the hopes that the government or someone else will control them for pathetic you.
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Do You Like Your World?: 04-27-2025
- Angry people live in an angry world because they fail to use empathy and forgiveness to live in a better world.
- Anxious people live in an anxious world because they fail to use faith and hope to live in a better world.
- Ashamed people live in a shameful world because they fail to use grace and mercy to live in a better world.
- Depressed people live in a depressed world because they fail to use courage and encouragement to live in a better world.
- Envious people live in a world of envy because they fail to use simplicity and spirituality to live in a better world.
- Guilty people live in a guilty world because they fail to use compassion and understanding to live in a better world.
- Prideful people live in a prideful world because they fail to use charity and humility to live in a better world.
- Resentful people live in a world of resentment because they fail to use kindness and gratitude to live in a better world.
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Judge Actions, Not Persons: 04-26-2025
- We must judge the sin and not the sinner, or else we will objectify and dehumanize the sinner.
- We must judge the work and not the worker, or else we will objectify and depersonalize the worker.
- We must judge the offense and not the offender, or else we will objectify and concretize the offender.
- We must judge the evil deed and not the evildoer, or else we will objectify and externalize the evildoer.
- We must judge the transgression and not the transgressor, or else we will objectify and demonize the transgressor.
Friday, April 25, 2025
Choose To Re-Choose: 04-25-2025
- Human nature will always make the dark choice and tell you it is your choice; refuse and re-choose from virtue.
- Human nature will always make the mean choice and tell you it is your choice; refuse and re-choose from the better.
- Human nature will always make the lazy choice and tell you it is your choice; refuse and re-choose from the superior.
- Human nature will always make the destructive choice and tell you it is your choice; refuse and re-choose from the higher.
- Human nature will always make the negative choice and tell you it is your choice; refuse and re-choose from something healing.
What’s Your Future?: 04-24-2025
- What you bring to the future is more important than what the future brings to you.
- The person worrying about their future needs to learn from the person creating their future.
- The number of futures you have depends on the number of futures you are equipped to handle.
- The person worrying about their future needs to learn from the person preparing for their future.
- The future will bring what it brings, and those who constantly add to and improve their knowledge and skills will do better than those who do not.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Lying Should Be Avoided: 04-23-2025
- Lying causes a break between yourself and your projected self.
- Sometimes, you can avoid lying by withholding information that is not necessary or pertinent.
- Sometimes, you can avoid lying by distracting or redirecting the conversation to other topics of interest.
- You do not always have to tell people what you think or what your opinion is. Sometimes, it is better to remain silent or engage in small talk.
- You cannot lie under any circumstances, even the threat of a horrible death, if it means denying your core beliefs, because that is worse than death.
- Lying is necessary when you are protecting someone from undeserved harm, such as saying you not hiding Jews when Nazis like Hamas want to murder them.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Thinking Used to Excuse Feeling: 04-22-2025
- Remove the attitude of heaviness from your thoughts, and they will not be used to excuse negative emotions and reactions.
- Remove the attitude of fearfulness from your thoughts, and they will not be used to excuse negative emotions and reactions.
- Remove the attitude of ponderousness from your thoughts, and they will not be used to excuse negative emotions and reactions.
- Remove the attitude of dire seriousness from your thoughts, and they will not be used to excuse negative emotions and reactions.
- Remove the attitude of burdensomeness from your thoughts, and they will not be used to excuse negative emotions and reactions.
Monday, April 21, 2025
Only One Opinion Matters: 04-21-2025
You need only God’s good opinion of you.
Spend time worrying about what God thinks about you and your actions, not people.
Your opinion of yourself is as meaningless and unimportant as the opinion of any other person.
The good opinion of your family and friends is often helpful, but unnecessary.
The good opinion of your society, peers, and fellow employees is convenient but unnecessary.
You should not disregard the opinions of your society and fellow citizens regarding your social behaviors unless they conflict with God’s orders and rules.
Do what is socially acceptable and correct when it does not contradict God’s precepts and words.
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Human Nature Is Opposite God’s: 04-20-2025
- God took on our nature so that He might convert it into Himself.
- God became man that He might overcome human nature and replace it with His nature.
- Human nature is the opposite of God’s nature because we naturally seek death, darkness, and destruction.
- God’s nature is the opposite of human nature because all made in God, of His Spirit, seek life, light, and love.
- God made one path to Himself, the Lord Jesus Christ, because no other was first born of God, then born of man, and then born again of God.
For more information, please read The Story of Life (https://geni.us/Storylife).
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Adults Wear Masks & Hide Behind Walls: 04-19-2025
- How can you be yourself if you always objectify yourself as self-constructions (self-concepts, self-images)?
- How can you be yourself if you always claim to be new and different things (semantic-objects)?
- How can you be yourself if you always try to become yourself and never achieve it?
- How can you be yourself if you are always becoming yourself and never arrive home?
- How can you be yourself if you are always trying to appear to be yourself for the sake of others?
Friday, April 18, 2025
History Is Not a Person: 04-18-2025
- You are not your story.
- You are not your history.
- You are not your life story.
- You are not your narrative.
- You are not your biography.
- You are not your life history.
- You are not your autobiography.
- You are not your prosopography.
- You are not your personal history.
- You are a unique internal place that provides or denies continuing space and time for whatever enters that place.
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Computers Have No Intelligence (AI): 04-17-2025
- Computers modeling intelligence cannot create intelligence; however, they can fool people into thinking computers have intelligence.
- Computers simulating intelligence cannot create intelligence; however, they can fool people into thinking computers have intelligence.
- Computers mimicking intelligence cannot create intelligence; however, they can fool people into thinking computers have intelligence.
- Computers faking intelligence cannot create intelligence; however, they can fool people into thinking computers have intelligence.
- Computers feigning intelligence cannot create intelligence; however, they can fool people into thinking computers have intelligence.
- Computers impersonating intelligence cannot create intelligence; however, they can fool people into thinking computers have intelligence.
- Computers pretending to have intelligence cannot create intelligence; however, they can fool people into thinking computers have intelligence.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Thoughts Are Thoughts, Nothing More (GS): 04-16-2025
- Your thoughts have no form but themselves.
- Your thoughts have no reality but themselves.
- Your thoughts have no results but themselves.
- Your thoughts have no essence but themselves.
- Your thoughts have no existence but themselves.
- Your thoughts have no substance but themselves.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Word Reality Is Not Reality (GS): 04-15-2025
- Your word reality is not equal to physical reality.
- Your word reality is not equal to sensation reality.
- Your word reality is not equal to sensing reality.
- Your word reality is not equal to feeling reality.
- Your word reality is not equal to intention reality.
- Your word reality is not equal to results reality.
Monday, April 14, 2025
When There Is Nothing to It, Leave It Alone: 04-14-2025
- When you are insulted, remember that there is nothing of substance to it, and hold fast to being nothing but a vessel.
- When others don’t approve of you, remember that there is nothing of substance to it, and hold fast to being nothing but a vessel.
- When others abandon and turn on you, remember that there is nothing of substance to it, and hold fast to being nothing but a vessel.
- When you get poor marks, grades, or evaluations, remember that there is nothing of substance to it, and hold fast to being nothing but a vessel.
- When others have negative opinions about you or your beliefs, remember that there is nothing of substance to it, and hold fast to being nothing but a vessel.
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Exactness for the Win: 04-13-2025
- Exactness will improve all you do by making it more effective, functional, and lasting.
- When you are exact in everything you do, you will be praised and valued more than most.
- The master seeks exactness in their thoughts, words, and deeds because exactness is the sibling of truth.
- To seek exactness has nothing to do with perfectionism or neuroticism and everything to do with results.
- A culture or country that makes exactness one of its primary purposes and instills it in its youth will do better than one that does not.
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Success Is Work, Not Privilege: 04-12-2025
- Your success is based on your maximizing what you have now.
- Life is not about getting more advantages but about using the ones you have.
- Those who make the most of what they have always do better than those who rely on what they have.
- The untalented achieve more than the talented when they put more effort, quality, and time into their work.
- Life is not about why you have less beauty, intelligence, gifts, talents, or privileges, but about how you maximize what you are given.
Friday, April 11, 2025
Virtue Is Application: 04-11-2025
- You can follow virtue, or you can follow your flesh.
- Virtue is when the results match the idealistic thoughts.
- Virtue is most often applying the positive to the negative.
- You know you are following virtue only when your results are virtuous.
- Virtue is an active good, not thinking, speaking, or writing about doing good.
- To follow virtue is not to follow thoughts but to realize the intentions of virtuous feelings.
Thursday, April 10, 2025
What Is Virtue?: 04-10-2025
- Virtue is works, not beliefs.
- Virtue is not good words but good actions.
- Virtue is a performance art, not a passive art.
- Virtue is the means to overcoming human nature.
- Following nice-sounding words is not following virtue.
- If you are following virtue, you are not following ideas but are possessed by principles.
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Make Your Goal the Infinite: 04-09-2025
- If you don’t know where you are going, you will end up somewhere, regardless.
- If you don’t know where you are going, you will end up somewhere you did not want to go.
- If you don’t know where you are going, you will end up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- If you don’t know where you are going, you will end up somewhere, often the opposite of your chosen path.
- If you don’t know where you are going, you must choose the infinite because only the infinite is worthy of your life.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Patience Is a Form of Action: 04-08-2025
- Patience is not inaction because it is waiting on God.
- Patience is not inaction but awareness of your place in the scheme of things.
- Patience is not inaction but a coping mechanism that keeps you in your right mind.
- Patience is not inaction but the response of the wise to all things beyond their control.
- Patience is not inaction but a state of mind open to contemplation, meditation, and prayer.
Monday, April 7, 2025
Control Your Responses, Not Others: 04-07-2025
- Focus on what you can control—how you respond.
- It’s not how good or bad it is; it is how good or bad your response to it is.
- It’s not how right or wrong it is; it is how right or wrong your response to it is.
- When something is negative, regard it as a call to respond with your best from the highest, you know.
- People get the responsibility for things backward when they think they can blame their negative responses on the existence of something negative.
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Stop Pleasing Your Ego: 04-06-2025
- When you objectify yourself and others, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
- When you claim you are, know, or do good, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
- When you try to be good, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
- When you think you are becoming good, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
- When you focus on appearing good, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
- When you compare, categorize, and measure yourself and others, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Take the Hard Road: 04-05-2025
- Taking the hard road is what fear calls it; however, it is the right road.
- Taking the hard road is what apathy calls it; however, it is the right road.
- Taking the hard road is what laziness calls it; however, it is the right road.
- Taking the hard road is what weakness calls it; however, it is the right road.
- Taking the hard road is what insecurity calls it; however, it is the right road.
- Taking the hard road is what cowardice calls it; however, it is the right road.
Friday, April 4, 2025
Choose Your New Path Now: 04-04-2025
- If you are not happy with your current path, great—you have the opportunity to choose a path with deep meaning.
- If you are not happy with your current path, instead of blaming something or someone, consider the fact that you keep choosing it.
- If you are not happy with your current path, instead of blaming something or someone, seek help and information to get on a better and brighter path.
- If you are not happy with your current path, instead of blaming something or someone, explore what other paths remain open and choose a better one.
- If you are not happy with your current path, it might be true that you were led to take a bad path; however, now, you can choose a better and brighter one.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Start Right to End Right: 04-03-2025
- Before you judge, do your research.
- Before you die, learn to live for God.
- Before you quit, find help and better information.
- Before you speak, check the source of your words.
- Before you claim to believe in God, spend time with God.
Peace Is a Choice: 04-02-2025
- Peace does not come because problems go away, but from solving problems.
- Peace does not come because everyone agrees, but because people choose to disagree peacefully.
- Peace does not come because war stops, but from choosing peaceful practices and solutions during war.
- Peace does not come because psychological conflict ends, but from accepting it or choosing to resolve it.
- Peace does not come because a better system is imposed on people, but because people choose to share common goals.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Words Are Not Results: 04-01-2025
- If you only care about the words, then you can be tricked into believing evil is good.
- If you only care about the words, then you can be tricked into doing evil that is beautified.
- If you only care about the words, then you can be tricked into doing evil that is supposed to result in good.
- The semantic reality of words is not the same as the results of following those words to perform deeds in the world.
- You must look at the words people propose to encourage, excuse, or force an action; however, you must look closer into the results of those actions because they will not mirror or be equal to the words.