quote of the day


Random quote of the day:

“Swimming has taught me a lot about the true chemistry of feeling good. It’s very easy to believe that levels of personal happiness are entirely reliant on all the exterior factors impinging on your life at that time—financial fortunes, friendships, relationships, ups and downs with work—but being in the water, particularly being in a large natural body of water, brings you away from that line of thinking, makes you realize how many of these influencing factors are beyond your control, and ultimately unsolvable, and that at any time your happiness can be primarily down to your immediate environment at that exact moment, if you let go and allow it.

—Tom Cox, Ring the Hill

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Random quote of the day:

“The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

―Simone Weil, Waiting for God

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Random quote of the day:

“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends can only read the title.

—Virginia Woolfe, Jacob’s Room

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Random quote of the day:

“When gods spoke through oracles they spoke in a way that’s hard for humans to understand. The hardness is what makes the difference between the human and the divine.

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

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Random quote of the day:

“You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

—Gustav Flaubert, letter to Madame Louise Colet, June 14, 1853

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Random quote of the day:

“In work perfectly realized there is no thought of reward, no love of procedure, no seeking after good, no clinging to goals, whether of attainment or of God himself.

—Brian Keeble, “Work and the Sacred,” in Every Branch In Me: Essays on the Meaning of Man (ed. Barry McDonald)

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Random quote of the day:

“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

—Douglas McGrath, screenplay for Nicholas Nickleby

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Random quote of the day:

“KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

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Random quote of the day:

“There is a stage in suffering, or in any emotion, or passion, when it belongs to what is most personal and inexpressible in man and there is a stage when it belongs to art. But in its first moments art can never do anything with it. Art is the distance that time gives to suffering.

—Albert Camus, Notebooks 1942-1951 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

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Random quote of the day:

“The presence of God.
In a tunnel of birdsong
a locked gate opens.

—Tomas Tranströmer, “Haikudikter”
(tr. Michael McGriff and Mikaela Grassl)

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