June 7, 2014

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

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000):

“Live not for Battles Won.

Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.

Live in the along.”

and

“Poetry is life distilled.”

and

“Books are meat and medicine

and flame and flight and flower

steel, stitch, cloud and clout,

and drumbeats on the air.”

Orhan Pamuk (1952 - ):

“Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.”

and

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”

Louise Erdrich (1954 - ):

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

and

“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”

and

“Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.”

Prince (1958 - ):

“If you don't like the world you're living in, take a look around you, at least you got friends.”

and

“Act your age and not your shoe size.”

and

“Put the right letters together and make a better day.”

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.”

and

“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.”

June 5, 2014

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

Adam Smith (1723 – 1790):

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”

and

“The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.”

and

“Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.”

and

“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.”

Richard Scarry (1919 – 1994):

“I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.”

and

“Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.”

Bill Moyers (1934 - ):

“Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.”

and

“Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization . . . Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility”

Spalding Gray (1941 – 2004):

“I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.”

Chuck Klosterman (1972 - ):

“We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It's easy. The first girl I ever loved was someone I knew in sixth grade. Her name was Missy; we talked about horses. The last girl I love will be someone I haven't even met yet, probably. They all count. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people in your life, and you’ll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years. But there’s still one more tier to all this; there is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of these loveable qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable. The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they’re often just the person you happen to meet the first time you really, really, want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else.”