June 30, 2014

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations:

Czeslaw Milosz (1911 – 2004):

“In a room where

people unanimously maintain

a conspiracy of silence,

one word of truth

sounds like a pistol shot.”

and

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us

how difficult it is to remain just one person,

for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors,

and invisible guests come in and out at will.”

and

“Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.”

and

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.”

Dave Van Ronk (1936 – 2002):

“Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.”

and

“When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.”

Matisyahu (1979 - ):

“I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.”

and

“When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about.”

June 29, 2014

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 – 1944):

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

and

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”

and

“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”

Robert Evans (1930 - ):

“There are three sides to every story: Your side, my side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each differently.”

and

“Any man who thinks he can read the mind of a woman is a man who knows nothing.”

June 28, 2014

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778):

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”

and

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”

and

“What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.”

and

“Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.”

and
"Direct the attention of your pupil to the phenomena of nature, and you will soon awaken his curiosity; but to 'keep that curiosity alive, you must be in no haste to satisfy it. Put questions to him adapted to his capacity, and leave him to resolve them. Let him take nothing on trust from his preceptor, but on his own comprehension and conviction: he should not learn, but invent the sciences. If ever you substitute authority in the place of argument, he will reason no longer; he will be ever afterwards bandied like a shuttle-cock between the opinions of others."

Luigi Pirandello (1867 – 1936):

“Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.”

Mel Brooks (1926 - ):

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”

and

“As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.”

and

“Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you've got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy, colorful and lively.”

Muhammad Yunus (1940 - ):

“Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.”

Gilda Radner (1946 – 1989):

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

Delicious Ambiguity.”

Mark Helprin (1947 - ):

“As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.”

John Cusack (1966 - ):

“I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.”

and

“But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.”

Felicia Day (1979 - ):

“The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.”

June 27, 2014

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

Emma Goldman (1869 – 1940):

“If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”

and

“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”

and

“The most violent element in society is ignorance.”

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 – 1906):

“This, this indeed is to be accursed,

For if we mortals love, or if we sing,

We count our joys not by what we have,

But by what kept us from that perfect thing.”

Helen Keller (1880 – 1986):

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

and

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”

and

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”

and

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

Lucille Clifton (1936 – 2010):

“may you kiss

the wind then turn from it

certain that it will

love your back”

and

“You might as well answer the door, my child,

the truth is furiously knocking.”

Ivan Doig (1939 - ):

“Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.”

and

“Life is mostly freehand.”

and

“My books already threatened to take over my part of the room and keep on going . . . whatever cargoes of words I could lay my hands on I gave safe harbor.”

Anita Diamant (1951 - ):

“If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.”