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Wed 30 Jun 2021

Good

Posted by PJ under good, gratitude, life, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I’m thankful to say that life has been and is good to me. Because of this I believe my task is to be good to it in return. How do you be good to life? You live it well and hopefully make it good for others.”

—Morgan Freeman, Twitter, February 8, 2021

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Mon 21 Jun 2021

Drama

Posted by PJ under drama, life, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”

—Alfred Hitchcock, Picture Parade, BBC, 5 July 1960

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Fri 18 Jun 2021

Thinking

Posted by PJ under life, quote of the day, reality, thinking, thought
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Random quote of the day:

“Our life is shaped and determined by our thoughts. Usually we are only half conscious of the way thoughts direct our life; we are lost in thoughts as if they are reality.

—Jack Kornfield, “Let Go of Unhealthy Thoughts,” jackkornfield.com/wise-thought/

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Wed 24 Mar 2021

Heart

Posted by PJ under hearts, in the moment, life, love, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“If our heart were large enough to love life in all its detail, we would see that every instant is at once a giver and a plunderer.”

—Gaston Bachelard, The Intuition of the Instant

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Wed 13 Jan 2021

Phantom

Posted by PJ under death, life, nature, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The senseless destruction of living things and all the sorrows of humanity count for nothing in the great whole.—The death of a sensitive man expiring in the company of his disconsolate friends, and that of a butterfly cut down by the chill morning air inside the calyx of a flower, are similar moments in the course of nature. Man is nothing but a phantom, a shadow, a mist that scatters in the air.”

—Xavier de Maistre, Journey Around My Room (tr. Stephen Sartarelli)

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Thu 17 Dec 2020

Living

Posted by PJ under life, meaning, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I wanted to live my life so that people would know unmistakably that I am alive, so that when I finally die people will know the difference for sure between my living and my death.”

—June Jordan, “Many Rivers to Cross,” Some of Us Did Not Die

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Fri 11 Dec 2020

Barter

Posted by PJ under ecstasy, life, quote of the day
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Barter

Life has loveliness to sell—
   All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
   Climbing fire that sways and sings,
And children’s faces looking up
Holding wonder like a cup.

Life has loveliness to sell—
   Music like a curve of gold,
Scent of pine trees in the rain,
   Eyes that love you, arms that hold,
And for your spirit’s still delight,
Holy thoughts that star the night.

Spend all you have for loveliness,
   Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of peace
   Count many a year of strife well lost,
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been or could be.

—Sara Teasdale

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Mon 7 Dec 2020

Sentence

Posted by PJ under life, quote of the day, work
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“Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.”

—T. E. Lawrence, The Mint

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Mon 23 Nov 2020

Seeds

Posted by PJ under death, life, quote of the day
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“The seeds that once were we take flight and fly,
Winnowed to earth, or whirled  along the sky,
Not lost but disunited. Life lives on.
It is the lives, the lives, the lives, that die.”

—Lucretius, Of the Nature of Things (tr.William Ellery Leonard)

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Wed 9 Sep 2020

Inevitable

Posted by PJ under death, life, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“A writer can have, ultimately, one of two styles: he can write in a manner that implies death is inevitable, or he can write in a manner that implies that death is not inevitable….If you write as if you believe that ultimately you and everyone else alive will be dead, there is a chance that you will write in a pretty earnest style. Otherwise you are apt to be either pompous or soft. On the other hand, in order not to be a fool, you must believe that as much as death is inevitable life is inevitable.

—William Saroyan, preface to The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

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