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Mon 28 Apr 2025

Heart

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the divine, the universe
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Random quote of the day:

“People who love the divine go around with holes in their hearts, and inside the hole is the universe.”

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

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Tue 22 Apr 2025

Ethics

Posted by PJ under ethics, quote of the day, religion
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Random quote of the day:

“Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life—it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.”

—Albert Schweitzer, quoted in Albert Schweitzer: The Man and His Mind by George Seaver

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Mon 7 Apr 2025

Wrong

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, right and wrong
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Random quote of the day:

“If there is one mental vice, indeed, which sets off the American people from all other folks who walk the earth…it is that of assuming that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that ninety-nine percent of them are wrong.”

—H. L. Mencken, “The American: His New Puritanism,” The Smart Set

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Thu 3 Apr 2025

Calm

Posted by PJ under cats, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.”

—Jules Renard, Journal, January 1889 (tr. Bogan and Roget)

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Mon 10 Mar 2025

Chaos

Posted by PJ under chaos, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Ancient Egyptians believed that the first and most necessary ingredient in the universe was chaos. It could sweep you away, but it was also the place from which all things start anew.”

—Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways

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Mon 27 Jan 2025

Language

Posted by PJ under language, quote of the day, talking, understanding
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Random quote of the day:

“The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

—Karl Kraus, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

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Mon 20 Jan 2025

Search

Posted by PJ under america, quote of the day, seeking
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Random quote of the day:

“We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.”

—Waldo Frank, Our America

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Thu 2 Jan 2025

Cherry

Posted by PJ under haiku, poetry, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“under cherry blossoms’ shade
even those whom we don’t know
are not strangers”

—Issa Kobayashi, 1819

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Thu 19 Dec 2024

Nature

Posted by PJ under nature, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“When we are in a place where the manmade constructs of the world seem as though they have crumbled, or time feels like it no longer exists, that feeling of separation fades away. We are reminded, in the deepest, rawest parts of our being that we are nature. It is in and of us. We are not superior or inferior, separate or removed; our breathing, breaking, ageing, bleeding, making and dying are the things of this earth. We are made up of the materials we see in the places around us, and we cannot undo the blood and bone that forms us.”

—Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places

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Tue 17 Dec 2024

Absurdity

Posted by PJ under absurdity, opinion, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“ABSURDITY, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.”

—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

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