Archive for March, 2015

Random quote of the day:

“Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter…the place of our salvation.”

—Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Way of the Heart

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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.

Random quote of the day:

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”

—Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

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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.

Random quote of the day:

“True silence is the rest of the mind, and it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”

—William Penn, Advice to His Children

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Random quote of the day:

“The true artist helps the world by revealing the mystic truths.”

—Richard Nauman, neon sign sculpture, 1967

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Random quote of the day:

“The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.”

—Mark Twain, More Maxims of Mark, ed. Merle Johnson, 1927

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Random quote of the day:

“Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success—yours or his.”

—Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953

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Random quote of the day:

“Seen from the outside, another’s life forms a unit. Whereas ours, seen from the inside, seems broken up. We are still chasing after an illusion of unity.”

—Albert Camus, The Notebooks, 1942-1952, tr. Justin O’Brien

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Random quote of the day:

“Our blight is ideologies—they are the long-expected Antichrist!”

—Carl Jung, The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, 1954

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Random quote of the day:

“Do not pay any attention to the rules other people make… They make them for their own protection, and to hell with them.”

—William Saroyan, preface, 1931 edition, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

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Random quote of the day:

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell. I’ll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”

—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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