Ramblingshttps://peterkropf.com/ Peter Kropfen Wed, 06 May 2026 01:43:58 -0000 Wed, 06 May 2026 01:43:58 -0000 1440 MkDocs RSS plugin - v1.18.1 None https://peterkropf.com/ Random <h1>Not Worth the Energy</h1> <p>I recently came across this <a href="https://julianbashir.tumblr.com/post/814702618806042624">post</a> and I'll quote it here:</p> <p>``` I need a pol...</p> https://peterkropf.com/2026/04/23/not-worth-the-energy/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:44:39 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2026/04/23/not-worth-the-energy/ Quotes <p>Who will you be when history calls?</p> <p>-- Trevor Noah</p> https://peterkropf.com/2026/04/16/trevor-noah/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:42:31 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2026/04/16/trevor-noah/ Quotes <h1>A Reminder</h1> <p>We are a caught in a perilous time and I wonder if we would listen to a reminder from one of our great Presidents, _that government of the peop...</p> https://peterkropf.com/2026/04/12/a-reminder/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:33:02 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2026/04/12/a-reminder/ haiku <h1>to sit by the sea</h1> <p><code>to sit by the sea and focus on the distance just breathe</code></p> https://peterkropf.com/2026/03/22/to-sit-by-the-sea/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:33:02 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2026/03/22/to-sit-by-the-sea/ Quotes <p>To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.</p> <p>-- Fred Rogers</p> https://peterkropf.com/2026/03/22/fred-rogers/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:33:02 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2026/03/22/fred-rogers/ Quotes <p>If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called Research.</p> <p>-- Albert Einstein</p> https://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/albert-einstein/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:06:32 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/albert-einstein/ Quotes <p>Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow bli...</p> https://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/albert-einstein2/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:06:32 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/albert-einstein2/ Quotes <p>Love as much as you can with what you've got. That's the best you can ever do. It does no good to search frantically for peace, to seek anxiously after love,...</p> https://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/cheri-huber/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:06:32 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/cheri-huber/ Quotes <p>Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.</p> <p>-- Eleanor Roosevelt</p> https://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/eleanor-roosevelt/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:06:32 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/eleanor-roosevelt/ Quotes <p>Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.</p> <p>-- Eleanor Roosevelt</p> https://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/eleanor-roosevelt2/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:06:32 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/eleanor-roosevelt2/ Quotes <p>The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.</p> <p>...</p> https://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/franklin-d-roosevelt/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:06:32 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/franklin-d-roosevelt/ Quotes <p>I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.</p> <p>-- Galileo Ga...</p> https://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/galileo-galilei/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:06:32 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/galileo-galilei/ Quotes <p>“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” </p> <p>-― George Bernard Shaw</p> https://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/george-bernard-shaw/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:06:32 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/george-bernard-shaw/ Quotes <p>The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.</p> <p>-- Henry Ward Beecher</p> https://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/henry-ward-beecher/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:06:32 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/henry-ward-beecher/ Quotes <p>Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good. That honour, courage, and...</p> https://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/hubb-mccann/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:06:32 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/hubb-mccann/ Quotes <p>Some days you wake and immediately start to worry. Nothing in particular is wrong, it's just the suspicion that forces are aligning quietly and there will be...</p> https://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/jenny-holzer/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:06:32 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/jenny-holzer/ Quotes <p>That's your plan? Wile E. Coyote would come up with a better plan than that. </p> <p>-- John Crichton</p> https://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/john-crichton/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:06:32 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/john-crichton/ Quotes <p>“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” </p> <p>-― L.M. Montgomery</p> https://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/lm-montgomery/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:06:32 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/lm-montgomery/ Quotes <p>In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.</p> <p>-- Mark Twain</p> https://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/mark-twain/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:06:32 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/mark-twain/ Quotes <p>If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He s...</p> https://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/martin-luther-king-jr/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:06:32 +0000 Peter Kropfhttps://peterkropf.com/2019/10/19/martin-luther-king-jr/