Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration

Written 6/25/2025.

If you follow my posts, you may remember me talking about a book I’ve been slowly reading. Like, since August of 2023. Almost 2 years and less than halfway through.

It’s entitled “Th…

Quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes: The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye. The more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.

Question: Have you ever tried to open someone’s mind—only…

Quote by Alan McClashen: Delight is the secret,

and the secret is to grow quiet and listen,

to stop thinking,

stop moving,

almost stop breathing,

to create an inner stillness in which,

like mice in a dese…

Quote from Ilka Chase: The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Question for you: What’s something you’re proud you tried—even if it didn’t go as planned?

Robert’s Substack is a reader-s…

Quote from Josh Billings: Consider the postage stamp. Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.

Question for you: What’s one goal you’ve stuck with—no matter ho…

Quote from Priscilla Wayne: As bread is the staff of life, so appreciation is the food of the soul.

Question for you: What’s the most meaningful 'thank you' you've ever received — or given?

Robert’s Su…

Quote from Helen Keller: We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Question for you: When did life’s challenges teach you something joy never could?

Robert’s Sub…

Quote from Margaret Mead: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Question: What’s a time when a small group made a big …

Quote from Boris Pasternak: What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth. Life always spills over the rim of the cup.

Question: When did life surprise you by spilling…

Quote from Linda Neukrug: Today, let me do, not stew.

Question: What are you done stewing over — and finally ready to do?

Quote from Mahatma Gandhi: To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

Question: What’s a change the world has never seen — but …

Quote from Aristotle: For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Question: What lesson did life teach you that no book or class ever could?

Quote from Lewis Carroll: When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.

Question: Have you ever had a word mean somet…

Quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Question: What’s more romantic than locking eyes? Locking hea…

Quote from Dandemis: Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may be wrong.

Question: When have you judged another only to find out later that they were right?

Perso…

Albert Einstein's rules for work.

One, out of complexity, find simplicity.

Two, from discord, find harmony.

Three, in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Question: "Which of Einstein’s three rules…

Quote from Kant: May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Question: "If everyone lived by your example today, what kind of world would we wake up to tomorr…

Quote from Andre Maurois: The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words. I do not know.

Question: "When was the last time you said, 'I don…

Quote from Jim Beggs: “To find fulfillment, don't coexist with life, embrace it.”

Question: "Are you coasting through life — or are you fully embracing it? What’s one bold step you’ve taken lately to …

Quote from Ferris Bueller, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it.”

Question: "What’s one small moment you slowed down for — and were glad you di…