November 8, 2014

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

Bram Stoker (1847 – 1912):

“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.”

Margaret Mitchell (1900 – 1949):

“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. ”

and

“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

Timothy Egan (1954 - ):

“Sometimes the wind along the Pacific shore blows so hard it steals your breath before you can inhale it.”

and

“The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild land can provide work for those who need it as their source of income without being ruined for those who need it as their source of sanity.”

Kazuo Ishiguro (1954 - ):

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”

November 7, 2014

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

Albert Camus (1913 – 1960):

“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

and

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

and

“Live to the point of tears.”

and

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”

and

“I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.”

Joni Mitchell (1943 - ):

“Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.”

Marie Curie (1867 – 1934):

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."

and

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."

and

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."

November 6, 2014

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

Robert Musil (1880 – 1942):

“One does what one is; one becomes what one does.”

and

“Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.”

James Jones (1921 – 1977):

“Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.”

and

“I write to reach eternity.”

and

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”

Michael Cunningham (1952 - ):

“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”

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“We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so...”

November 5, 2014

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

Eugene V. Debs (1855 – 1926):

“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.”

and

“I may not be able to say all I think, but I am not going to say anything I do not think.”

Will Durant (1885 – 1981):

“Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

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“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.”

and

“Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.”

and

“There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.”

and

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

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“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves…let us be above such transparent egotism.”

John Berger (1926 - ):

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”

and

“My heart born naked

was swaddled in lullabies.

Later alone it wore

poems for clothes.

Like a shirt

I carried on my back

the poetry I had read.

So I lived for half a century

until wordlessly we met.

From my shirt on the back of the chair

I learn tonight

how many years

of learning by heart

I waited for you.”

Art Garfunkel (1941 - ):

“Everything worth doing starts with being scared.”

Sam Shepard (1943 - ):

“When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.”

and

“I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That’s genius.”

Gram Parsons (1946 – 1973):

"We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great."

Bill Walton (1952 - ):

Bill tells a story about showing up to the first day of practice with legendary coach John Wooden, who was quite strict about rules. Walton showed up with long hair and a full beard, despite the fact that it was against the Coach’s rules of appearance. “It’s my right,” Walton told him. Coach Wooden asked him if he believed that strongly in keeping the long hair and beard. Walton replied that he did. “That’s good, Bill,” Coach said, “I admire people who have strong beliefs and stick by them, I really do. We’re going to miss you.” Bill immediately got a haircut and a shave in the locker room.