July 15, 2014

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

Walter Benjamin (1892 – 1940):

“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”

and

“Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”

and

“Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.”

Iris Murdoch (1919 – 1999):

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”

and

“Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”

Jacques Derrida (1930 -2004):

“What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”

and

“Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.”

Linda Ronstadt (1946 - ):

“Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They sing for a mate, to claim their territory, or simply to give voice to the delight of being alive in the midst of a beautiful day. Perhaps more than the birds do, humans hold a grudge. They sing to complain of how grievously they have been wronged, and how to avoid it in the future. They sing to help themselves execute a job of work. They sing so the subsequent generations won’t forget what the current generation endured, or dreamed, or delighted in.”

Richard Russo (1949 - ):

“What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?”

and

“And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.”

Ian Curtis (1956 – 1980):

“Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.”

and

“When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart.”