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Fri 14 May 2021

Star

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

“Imagination is the star (astrum) in man, the celestial or supercelestial body.”

—Martin Ruland, Lexicon of Alchemy, 1622

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Thu 13 May 2021

Give

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

“All you have is what you are, and what you give.”

—Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

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Wed 12 May 2021

Balance

Posted by PJ under balance, happiness, quote of the day, the world
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Random quote of the day:

“So few grains of happiness
measured against all the dark
and still the scales balance.

The world asks of us
only the strength we have and we give it.
Then it asks more, and we give it.

—Jane Hirshfield, “The Weighing”

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Tue 11 May 2021

Justice

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

“I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how the department can—and must—always be a force for that which is right.”

—Eric Holder, Statement by the President and Attorney General Eric Holder, September 24, 2014

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Mon 10 May 2021

Slowly

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

“Life is so short we must move very slowly.”

—Thai proverb

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Fri 7 May 2021

Bed

Posted by PJ under cycle of life, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“A bed witnesses out birth and it witnesses our death: it is the ever-changing theater where the human species enacts, by turns, engaging dramas, ridiculous farces, and horrible tragedies.—It is a cradle decked with flowers;—it is love’s throne;—it is a sepulcher.”

—Xavier de Maistre, Journey Around My Room (tr. Stephen Sartarelli)

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Thu 6 May 2021

Rules

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

“Rules have no existence outside of individuals: otherwise a good professor would be as great a genius as Racine.”

—Henri Matisse, Notes of a Painter

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Wed 5 May 2021

Clay

Posted by PJ under being human, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,
Surely such clay is more than half divine—
‘Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,
The very stars are made of clay like mine.

—Omar Khayyam, The Rubáiyát, #156 (tr. Edward Fitzgerald)

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Tue 4 May 2021

Renounce

Posted by PJ under ego, quote of the day, self-knowledge
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Random quote of the day:

“The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, “An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838”

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Mon 3 May 2021

Cliché

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

“My stories come to me as clichés. A cliché is a cliché because it’s worthwhile. Otherwise, it would have been discarded. A good cliché can never be overwritten; it’s still mysterious.”

—Toni Morrison, Black Women Writers at Work, ed. Claudia Tate

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