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Thu 28 Sep 2023

Thinking

Posted by PJ under mind, quote of the day, thinking
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Random quote of the day:

“Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.”

—Buddha, Dvedhavitakka Sutta 6

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Tue 26 Sep 2023

Coffee

Posted by PJ under coffee, history, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“History isn’t something you need to bring to life. History already is alive. We are history. History isn’t politicians or kings and queens. History is everyone. It is everything. It’s that coffee. You could explain much of the whole history of capitalism and empire and slavery just by talking about coffee. The amount of blood and misery that has taken place for us to sit here and sip coffee out of paper cups is incredible.”

—Matt Haig, How To Stop Time

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Tue 19 Sep 2023

Death

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

“It’s such a perfect arrangement for wisdom to hide away in death. Everyone runs from death so everyone runs away from wisdom, except for those who are willing to pay the price and go against the stream.”

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

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Thu 14 Sep 2023

Doubt

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Random quote of the day:

“My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my doubt.”

—Gustave Flaubert, letter to Louise Colet, August 8-9, 1846

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Tue 12 Sep 2023

Ignorance

Posted by PJ under ignorance, knowledge, quote of the day, racism, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“The greatest evil in our country today is not racism, but ignorance. I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than to believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

–Septima Poinsette Clark, Annual Christmas message⁠, 1975

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Mon 11 Sep 2023

Bud

Posted by PJ under art, artists, patience, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to the patient, who are there as though eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly still and wide. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful: patience is everything!”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to A Young Poet

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Thu 7 Sep 2023

Garbo

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

“What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.”

—Kenneth Tynan, Curtains

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Wed 6 Sep 2023

Body

Posted by PJ under body, hearts, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall. And the body alone listens to the passing bee; the wave breaking; the dog barking, far away barking and barking.

—Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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Thu 31 Aug 2023

Doubt

Posted by PJ under certainty, doubt, ignorance, questions and answers, quote of the day, science
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Random quote of the day:

“The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty—some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.”

—Richard P. Feynman, The Value of Science

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Tue 29 Aug 2023

Wisdom

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, sacredness, wisdom
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Random quote of the day:

“Wisdom sits in places.”

—Apache proverb

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