December 4, 2014

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

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926):

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

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“Let everything happen to you

Beauty and terror

Just keep going

No feeling is final”

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“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”

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“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795 -1881):

“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in ally was he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.”

Jay-Z (1969 - ):

“We change people through conversation, not through censorship.”

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“A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”

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“If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.”

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December 3, 2014

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

Joseph Conrad (1857 -1924):

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

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“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.”

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“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”

Jean-Luc Godard (1930 - ):

“Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean.”

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“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”

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“When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.”

Ozzy Osbourne (1948 - ):

“I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I’ve made a career out of it now.”

December 2, 2014

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T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948 - ):

“But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it.”

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“There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.”

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“I am concerned with social and environmental issues. What rational person is not? But advocacy and art do not mix. Art is a seduction. Good art invites the reader to think and feel deeply and come to his/her own conclusions.”

George Saunders (1958 - ):

“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”

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“Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.”

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“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded…sensibly.  Reservedly.  Mildly.”

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“And so, a prediction, and my heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.  YOU will gradually be replaced by LOVE.   If you have kids, that will be a huge moment in your process of self-diminishment.  You really won’t care what happens to YOU, as long as they benefit.  That’s one reason your parents are so proud and happy today.  One of their fondest dreams has come true: you have accomplished something difficult and tangible that has enlarged you as a person and will make your life better, from here on in, forever.”

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“And someday, in 80 years, when you’re 100, and I’m 134, and we’re both so kind and loving we’re nearly unbearable, drop me a line, let me know how your life has been.  I hope you will say: It has been so wonderful.”

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“Do all the other things, the ambitious things – travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes, swim naked in wild jungle rivers, but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.”

Ann Patchett (1963 - ):

“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”

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“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”

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“You are always someone’s favorite unfolding story.”

December 1, 2014

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Rex Stout (1886 – 1975):

“MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.”

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“I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know.”

Walter Alston (1911 – 1984):

"Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do your best and forget the consequences."

Woody Allen (1935 - ):

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

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“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

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“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”

Richard Pryor (1940 – 2005):

“I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.”

Sarah Silverman (1970 - ):

“Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.”