June 7, 2014

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000):

“Live not for Battles Won.

Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.

Live in the along.”

and

“Poetry is life distilled.”

and

“Books are meat and medicine

and flame and flight and flower

steel, stitch, cloud and clout,

and drumbeats on the air.”

Orhan Pamuk (1952 - ):

“Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.”

and

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”

Louise Erdrich (1954 - ):

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

and

“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”

and

“Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.”

Prince (1958 - ):

“If you don't like the world you're living in, take a look around you, at least you got friends.”

and

“Act your age and not your shoe size.”

and

“Put the right letters together and make a better day.”