December 31, 2014

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

Alexander Smith (1830 – 1867):

“Love is the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”

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“To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.”

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“We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.”

Simon Wiesenthal (1908 – 2005):

“Violence is like a weed--it does not die even in the greatest drought.”

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“Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.”

John Denver (1943 – 1997):

“Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.”

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“Peace is a conscious choice.”

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“Who cares what tomorrow shall bring

I can't be contented with yesterday's glory

I can't live on promises winter to spring

Today is my moment and now is my story

I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing”

Connie Willis (1945 - ):

“When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.”

Paul Westerberg (1959 - ):

"Live without your touch

I'll die within your reach"

and

"The ones we love the best are the ones we lay to rest

And visit their graves on holidays at best

The ones we love the least are the ones we die to please

If it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand them"

and

"And she's kind of like a poet

Who finds it hard to speak

Poems come so slowly

Like the colors down a sheet"

Junot Díaz (1968 - ):

“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”

and

“The half-life of love is forever.”

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“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”

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“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”

December 30, 2014

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

 Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936):

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”

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“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble.”

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“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”

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“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”

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“You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.”

Paul Bowles (1910 – 1999):

“How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”

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“I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind ... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.”

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“Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.”

Sandy Koufax (1935 - ):

“I don't regret one minute of the last twelve years, but I do believe I would regret one minute too many.”

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“The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.”

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“Trying to hit him was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.” – Willie Stargell

Patti Smith (1946 - ):

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

and

“Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.”

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“For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.”

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“Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.”

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“Writing is not some quiet, closet act.”

Jeff Lynne (1947 - ):

“Mr. Blue you did it right,

But soon comes Mr. Night,

Creepin' over, now his

Hand is on your shoulder,

Never mind I'll remember you this way.”

Douglas Coupland (1961 - ):

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”

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“I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.”

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“We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

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“I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between the don't-do-acid and don't-drink-and-drive films. I wish our counselors had told us, 'When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is the list of the symptoms, and don't worry—loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact—loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.”

December 29, 2014

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

Robert Ruark (1915 – 1965):

“If they keep exposing you to education, you might even realize some day that man becomes immortal only in what he writes on paper, or hacks into rock, or slabbers onto a canvas, or pulls out of a piano.”

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“Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s’pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain’t a boy any longer.”

William Gaddis (1922 – 1998):

“If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.”

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“Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it...”

Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - ):

“You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”

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“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers”

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“Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”

Jude Law (1972 - ):

“We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.”