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Tue 3 Jul 2012

Lasting

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, that which abides, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

 

“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

—William James, Great Men and Their Environment

 

 


Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 12 Jun 2012

Greening

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Random quote of the day:

 

“I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”

—Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson)

 

 


Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 23 May 2012

Release

Posted by PJ under philosophy, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

 

“When anything becomes a problem we are caught in the solution of it, and then the problem becomes a cage, a barrier to further exploration and understanding.  So don’t let us reduce all life to a vast and complex problem.”

—J. Krishnamurti, “How To Live In This World,” The Urgency of Change

 

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 21 May 2012

Sacred

Posted by PJ under mother earth, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

 

“The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth, and all that lives and grows upon the Earth.”

—Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future

 

 


Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 15 May 2012

Dark to light

Posted by PJ under compassion, contradictions, darkness, growing up, light, morality, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

 

“How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.”

—Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams

 

 


Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 27 Feb 2012

Vulnerable

Posted by PJ under growing up, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

 

“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable.  But to grow up is to accept vulnerability…To be alive is to be vulnerable.”

—Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 16 Feb 2012

Fit to burst

Posted by PJ under dreams and dreamtime, illusion, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Think of this fleeting life…like a bubble rising in a stream, a falling star, a phantom, a dream.”

—The Diamond Sutra

 

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Wed 7 Dec 2011

Live long

Posted by PJ under longevity, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

 

“The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.”

—Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations II, 14

 

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Wed 16 Nov 2011

Letting go is the hardest part

Posted by PJ under dreams and dreamtime, growing up, letting go, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

 

“If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.”

—Mary Beth Danielson, column, Journal Times of Racine, Wisconsin

 

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Tue 15 Nov 2011

Longer not better

Posted by PJ under death, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:


“There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points ‘born’ and ‘died’ farther away from one another…The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers…”

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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