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DAILY QUOTES
04_03_For God is not a God of disorder but of peace. - Jesus
04_04_Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? - Robert Browning
04_05_Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. - Thomas Pain
04_06_All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope. - Sir Winston Churchill
04_07_Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers "yeah right"
04_08_Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might. - Phillips Brooks
04_09_Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering. - Propertius
04_10_First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus
04_11_Babe Ruth hit more home runs than anyone; he also struck out more often than anyone. - Anonymous
04_12_To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. - Grenville Kleiser
04_13_Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.- Danish proverb
04_14_Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead: therein lies the whole art of pleasing. - J.E de Goncourt
04_15_There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. - Beverly Sills
04_16_Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. - Henry Fielding
04_17_One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it. - Knute Rockne
04_18_The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. - Benjamin Jowet
04_19_I miss me, I miss everything I'll never be and on, and on. - Billy Corigan
04_20_And on the seventh day, god stepped back and said "There is my creation, perfect in every way... oh, dammit I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it... Now I have to create republicans." - Bill Hicks
04_21_"Once if I remember well, my life was a feast - where all hearts opened and all wines flowed." - Arthur Rimbaud
04_22_ "These are tuned flowing days, days of short hours and surrounded by artists streams, their time is of the finest wine." - sheff
04_23_"Who are YOU?" - The Caterpillar, Alice in Wonderland
04_24_ "I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests." - Pablo Neruda
04_25_ "The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper." - Aristotle
04_26_"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles Du Bos
04_27_ "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." - Benjamin Franklin
04_28_ "When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults." - Agapet
04_29_ "One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world making the most of one's best." - Harry Emerson Fosdick
04_30_ "Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it." - William James
05_01_ "Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." - Louisa May Alcott
05_02_ "True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness." -Friedrich Nietzsche
05_03_ "I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me." - Charles Baudelaire
05_04_ "Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk." - Henry David Thoreau
05_12_ "A great flame follows a little spark." - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
05_13_ "I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.” - Jack Kerouac
05_14_"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
05_15_ " A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us." - Maltbie Babcock
05_16_ "If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself." - A. Neilen
05_17_ "To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him." - Honore De Balzac
05_18_ "God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room." - Ani DiFranco
05_19_ "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller
05_20_ "A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
05_21_ "I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort." - Elizabeth T. King
05_22_ "Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else." - Henry Ward Beecher
05_23_ "Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind." - Robert Louis Stevenson
05_24_ “Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.” - Oscar Wilde
05_25_ "Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits." - Thomas Jefferson
05_26_ “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” - Hunter S. Thompson
05_27_ "Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own." - Johann von Goethe
05_28_ "One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." - Sigmund Freud
05_29_ "Wish I was ocean size, they cannot move you, no one tries." - Perry Farrell
05_30_ "The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous." - Margot Fonteyn
05_31_ "Ah yes, such victories we find in travel. An escape. An exasperated sense of self. Such glory in evacuated purgatory - bliss is new to lost souls found wandering in wonderment..." - Sheff
06_01_"Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving." - Henry Ford
06_02_"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind." - William Hazlitt
06_03_"The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive." - Ernest Becker
06_04_"No man is a failure who is enjoying life." - William Feather
06_05_"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
06_06_ "Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen”- Woody Guthrie
_06_07_ "No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work." - Mother Teresa
06_08_ "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell." -C. S. Lewis
,br 06_09_ "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. " -John F. Kennedy
06_10_ "Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it." - Henry Rollins
06_11_ "Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible." - Anonymous
06_12_ "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." -Edgar Allan Poe
06_13_ "Gentlemen, why don't you laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh, I should die." - Abraham Lincoln
06_14_ "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
06_15_ "A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
06_16_ "When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy." - Samuel Goldwyn
06_17_"If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it." - George Lucas
06_18_"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
06_19_"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen." - Carl Sandburg
06_20_ "Great hopes make great men." - Thomas Fuller
06_21_ "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live a life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau
07_01_ "What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it." - Johann von Goethe
07_02_ "The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues." - Marcus Aurelius
07_03_ "The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions." - William F. Scolavino
07_04_ "To preserve our independence... We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." - Thomas Jefferson
07_09_ "The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason." - Marya Mannes
07_11_ - farewell - By JILL LAWLESS LONDON (AP) - Syd Barrett, the troubled Pink Floyd co-founder who spent his last years in reclusive anonymity, has died, the band said Tuesday. He was 60. A spokeswoman for the band said Barrett died several days ago, but she did not disclose the cause of death. Barrett had suffered from diabetes for years. The surviving members of Pink Floyd - David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright - said they were "very upset and sad to learn of Syd Barrett's death." "Syd was the guiding light of the early band lineup and leaves a legacy which continues to inspire," they said in a statement.
07_12_ "The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise." - George Santayana, "The Life of Reason: Reason in Society", 1906
07_13_ "What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this?" - Epictitus
07_14_ "So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race." - Ernest L. Woodward
07_15_ "FUCK OFF" - Johnny "Rotten" Lydon
07_16_ "Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." - George Bernard Shaw
07_17_ "Patience is passion tamed." - Lyman Abbott
07_18_ "Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt." - Stewart L. Udall
07_27_"That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no Gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is a grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
08_03_ "Anger is a prelude to courage." - Eric Hoffer
08_20_ "Success doesn't "happen." It is organized, preempted, captured, by consecrated common sense." - F.E. Willard
08_25_ "They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea." - Francis Bacon
08_31_ "Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."- Spurgeon
09_12_"We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs."- Francois Fenelon
10_29_ "Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing." John Stuart Mill
10_31 "Samhain and the harvest festival- It was understood that in dark silence comes whisperings of new beginnings, the stirring of the seed below the ground. Intrinsic drums, dancing in a song. A new smooth moon - and nightfall brings a cool blue spool pulled over the landscape. A vibration winds itself around this rhythm." - sheff
11_25 "The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fall."- Confucius
11_29 "I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you." - God
1_21 "Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done." - Russell W. Davenport