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Wed 31 Jul 2013

Meaning

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

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

—Carl Jung, “The Aims of Psychology,” Modern Man in Search of a Soul
   (tr. Cary F. Baynes)

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Tue 30 Jul 2013

Punishers

Posted by PJ under crime and punishment, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day: 

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”

—Friedrich Nietzsche, The Tarantulas
(tr. Thomas Common)

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Mon 29 Jul 2013

Ther is no rose of swych vertu

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, sin, virtue
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Random quote of the day:

“Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.”

—François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxim 179, Maxims

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Fri 26 Jul 2013

From illusion to illusion

Posted by PJ under change, illusion, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Change is not movement from the known to the known, and all political revolutions are that. This kind of change is not what we are talking about. To progress from being a sinner to being a saint is to progress from one illusion to another.”

—J. Krishnamurti, “How To Live In This World,” The Urgency of Change

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Thu 25 Jul 2013

All around the nest egg tree

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, wealth
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Random quote of the day:

“Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.”

—John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society

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Wed 24 Jul 2013

Facing the storms

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, storms
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Random quote of the day:

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings.”

—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, The Wheel of Life

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Tue 23 Jul 2013

In the darkest night

Posted by PJ under grace, hope, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.”

—attributed to Vincent McNabb

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Fri 19 Jul 2013

Quiet guy

Posted by PJ under crime and punishment, narcissism, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Just once, Tess would like to read a story where someone said, “He was a jerk, and we’re not the least bit surprised someone finally offed him.”  She was beginning to think “quiet guy/kept to himself” was the consequence of an increasingly incurious planet, where no one noticed anyone but themselves.”

—Laura Lippman, In A Strange City

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Thu 18 Jul 2013

Sinking into essence

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

“When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.”

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, tr. Lewis Galantiere

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Wed 17 Jul 2013

Style, you, you, style

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, style, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“I don’t think style is consciously arrived at, any more than one arrives at the color of one’s eyes. After all, your style is you.”

—Truman Capote, interview, The Paris Review, No. 16, Spring-Summer 1957

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