Tuesday, September 30, 2014

September 30, 2014

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



Rumi (1207 - 1273):
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

and
“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”




Truman Capote (1924 - 1984):
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

and
“He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....”

and
“You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.”

and
“I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.”

and
“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”

and
“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”

and
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”




Elie Wiesel (1928 - ):
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

and
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

and
“There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.”




W.S. Merwin (1927 - ):
“On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree”

“Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.”

“A BIRTHDAY

Something continues and I don't know what to call it
though the language is full of suggestions
in the way of language
but they are all anonymous
and it's almost your birthday music next to my bones

these nights we hear the horses running in the rain
it stops and the moon comes out and we are still here
the leaks in the roof go on dripping after the rain has passed
smell of ginger flowers slips through the dark house
down near the sea the slow heart of the beacon flashes

the long way to you is still tied to me but it brought me to you
I keep wanting to give you what is already yours
it is the morning of the mornings together
breath of summer oh my found one
the sleep in the same current and each waking to you

when I open my eyes you are what I wanted to see.”
W.S. Merwin



“Inside this pencil
crouch words that have never been written
never been spoken
never been taught

they’re hiding

they’re awake in there
dark in the dark
hearing us
but they won’t come out
not for love not for time not for fire

even when the dark has worn away
they’ll still be there
hiding in the air
multitudes in days to come may walk through them
breathe them
be none the wiser

what script can it be
that they won’t unroll
in what language
would I recognize it
would I be able to follow it
to make out the real names
of everything

maybe there aren’t
many
it could be that there’s only one word
and it’s all we need
it’s here in this pencil

every pencil in the world
is like this”

W.S. Merwin

Monday, September 29, 2014

September 29, 2014

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



Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616):
“There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.”

and
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”

and
“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world”

and
“Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.”




Miguel de Unamuno (1864 - 1936):
“At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right”

and
“The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.”

and
“We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.”




Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954):
“Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level.”

and

“There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery”



Sunday, September 28, 2014

September 28, 2014

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



Janeane Garofalo (1964 - ):
"Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult... Many people are often wrong... Don't bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in."

and
"To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first."




It is “Teachers Day” in China and the Philippines. Ceremonies dedicated to Confucius on this day. So, here are some sayings attributed to Confucius:
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

and
“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”

and
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

and
“You cannot open a book without learning something.”

and
“It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.”

and

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”




Saturday, September 27, 2014

Album Anniversary - September 27

Today is the 10th anniversary of "Antics" by Interpol.


It is also the 20th anniversary of "Monster" by R.E.M., "Ruby Vroom" by Soul Coughing, and the Pulp Fiction Soundtrack.





It is also the 25th anniversary of "The Seeds of Love" by Tears for Fears


And finally the 30th anniversary of "Forever Young" by Alphaville