Today's Words of Wisdom - September 24, 2015

Today is the birthday of the following people:

Jim Henson (1936 – 1990):

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”

and

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”

and

“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.”

and

“Life’s like a movie. Write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”

and

 “When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.”

and

“Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. It’s a good life, enjoy it.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940):

 “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

and

“Optimism is the content of small men in high places.”

Homeboy Sandman (1980 - ):

“People ask how come I read out a book.

Like I'm the herb to be concerned with how uncommon it look.

I don't need to take the time out to speak

I already know nobody cares if that’s the verse I wrote to the beat

And how I do too many features?

Please don't start

How can an artist make too much art?”

May 16, 2015

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

Studs Terkel (1912 – 2008):

“I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.”

and

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”

and

“People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another.”

and

“How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.”

Juan Rulfo (1917 – 1986):

“Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.”

Adrienne Rich (1929 – 2012):

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”

and

“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.”

and

“You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.”

and

“Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.”

Bruce Coville (1950 - ):

“Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”

and

“The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.”

and

“All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don't do something about the terrible state the world is in. I can tell you why. By the time they grow up, most of the kids who really could have changed things are wrecked. ”

Today also marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Jim Henson who said:

"Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.”

September 24, 2014

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940):

 “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

and

“Optimism is the content of small men in high places.”

Jim Henson (1936 – 1990):

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”

and

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”

and

“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.”

and

“Life’s like a movie. Write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”

and

 “When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.”

and

“Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. It’s a good life, enjoy it.”