February 1, 2015

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

Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884 – 1937):

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.”

and

“You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.”

and

“True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.”

Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967):

“Life is for the living.

Death is for the dead.

Let life be like music.

And death a note unsaid.”

and

“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.”

Muriel Spark (1918 – 2006):

“The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”

Jerry Spinelli (1941 - ):

“Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow…You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but now you’ll never know.”

Meg Cabot (1967 - ):

“Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks.”

and

“You’re not a one hundred dollar bill, not everyone is going to like you.”

Galway Kinnell (1927 - 2014):

“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, 'This is the problem I want to have.'

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

Let our scars fall in love.”