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Mon 14 Apr 2014

The one and only

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

“Every successful creative person creates with an audience of one in mind. That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.”

—Kurt Vonnegut, interview, The Paris Review, Issue 69, Spring 1977

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Thu 10 Apr 2014

Like a room without a roof

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

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”

—Russian proverb

(Variously misattributed to Ingrid Bergman, Albert Schweitzer, and even Phil Spector.)

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Wed 9 Apr 2014

The past

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

“Must living always be in the past, must all activity spring from the past, is all relationship the outcome of the past, is living the complex memory of the past? That is all we know—the past modifying the present. And the future is the outcome of this past acting through the present. So the past, the present and the future are all the past. And this past is what we call living.”

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

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Tue 8 Apr 2014

Judgment

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

“A man judging another is a sight that would make me burst with laughter if it did not fill me with pity.”

—Gustave Flaubert, letter quoted in Albert Camus, The Notebooks, 1942-1951,  tr. Justin O’Brien

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Mon 7 Apr 2014

Got to find my corner of the sky

Posted by PJ under art, music, nature, poetry, quote of the day, self-knowledge, the deep within, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.”

—Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality

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Fri 4 Apr 2014

Beautiful visions

Posted by PJ under beauty, madness, quote of the day, reason, writing
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Random quote of the day: 

“The only beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

—André Gide, The Journals of André Gide, Vol. I

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Thu 3 Apr 2014

Follow

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

“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.”

—Alan Cohen, Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risks to Follow Your Bliss

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Wed 2 Apr 2014

Blah blah blah

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

“Look out for the fellow who lets you do all the talking.”

—Kin Hubbard

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Tue 1 Apr 2014

Yourself

Posted by PJ under eccentricity, evil, individuality, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day: 

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity. That is, something that can’t be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn’t be happy with.”

—Joseph Brodsky, “A College Commencement Address,” Less Than One: Selected Essays

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