Tue 6 Aug 2013
Posted by PJ under change, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.”
—Marjorie M. Liu, Darkness Calls
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Mon 5 Aug 2013
Posted by PJ under courage and fear, justice, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“We become just by doing just actions, temperate by doing temperate actions, brave by doing brave actions.”
—Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II
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Thu 1 Aug 2013
Posted by PJ under families, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.”
—Martin Mull, Newsweek, April 3, 1978
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Wed 31 Jul 2013
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
Posted by PJ under crime and punishment, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:Â
“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
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.
Fri 26 Jul 2013
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
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
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
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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