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Fri 10 Aug 2018

Irony outlives us

Posted by PJ under death, geegaws, irony, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Every little tchotchke outlives us. So choose with care.”

—Joyce Carol Oates, Twitterfeed, August 12, 2013

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Thu 9 Aug 2018

Final glory

Posted by PJ under aging, glory, haiku, quote of the day, seasons
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Random quote of the day:

“The old cherry tree’s
final blossoms are her last
cherished memory.”

—Bashō (tr. Sam Hamill in Narrow Road to the Interior)

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Tue 7 Aug 2018

Imaginative

Posted by PJ under imagination, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”

—Philip José Farmer, quoted in his New York Times obituary, February 26, 2009

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Mon 6 Aug 2018

Generous

Posted by PJ under generosity, greed, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Generous, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.”

—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

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Fri 3 Aug 2018

F-f-f-f-fashion

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

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”

—Jean Cocteau, quoted in Threads: My Life Behind the Seams in the High-Stakes World of Fashion by Joseph Abboud

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Fri 27 Jul 2018

Within

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the deep within, the self
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Random quote of the day:

“Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself…”

—André Gide, Les Nourritures Terrestres

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Tue 24 Jul 2018

Spiritu

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, spirits, that which abides
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Random quote of the day:

“Some spirits are indeed figments of the human imagination, yet there are others who have been around much longer than human beings. Among spirits there is a vast hierarchy, from simple energy forms and nature spirits to angelic and higher forms of divine and galactic intelligence. These may be terrestrial or celestial, intimately associated with human life or not, but all are aspects of the one Universal Being, conceived of as the totality, inner and outer, or as its creator.”

—Rab Wilkie, “Spirited Imagination: Ways of approaching the shaman’s world,” in Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters, eds. David Young and Jean-Guy Goulet

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Thu 19 Jul 2018

Not the good we are seeking

Posted by PJ under greed, money, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”

—Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I

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Mon 16 Jul 2018

Wounded

Posted by PJ under avoidance, quote of the day, the wound
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Random quote of the day:

“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”

—Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (tr. Richard Zenith)

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Fri 13 Jul 2018

Where are they now?

Posted by PJ under children, intelligence, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?”

—Fran Lebowitz, The New York Times, August 10, 1994

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