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.”