June 6, 2014

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

Nathan Hale (1755 – 1776):

“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

Thomas Mann (1875 – 1955):

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”

and

“In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.”

and

“Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.”

Maxine Kumin (1925 - ):

“Cherish your wilderness.”

Marian Wright Edelman (1939 - ):

“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.”

and

“You really can change the world if you care enough.”

and

“Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.”

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“Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.”

and

“You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.”

Sarah Dessen (1970 - ):

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

and

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”

Patrick Rothfuss (1973 - ):

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

and

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”

and

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”