July 3, 2014

Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 – 1935):

“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.”

and

“We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.”

and

“The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.”

Franz Kafka (1883 – 1924):

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”

and

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

and

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

and

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

and

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”

Tom Stoppard (1937 - ):

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”

and

“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”

and

“I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.”

Rohinton Mistry (1952 - ):

“...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.”

and

“Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.”

Julian Assange (1971 - ):

“You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.”