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Tue 10 Mar 2020

Perfection

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

“We must surrender the idea that this perfection that we see in the mind or before our eyes is obtainable or attainable. It is really far from us. We are no more capable of having it than the infant that tries to eat it. But our happiness lies in our moments of awareness of it.”

—Agnes Martin, lecture, Institute of Contemporary Art, February 14, 1973

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Mon 9 Mar 2020

Grief

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

“Grief has no solution. Let it be.”

—Amy Shock, Thought Catalog

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Fri 6 Mar 2020

Polite

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

“Politeness is organized indifference.”

—Paul Valéry, Tel Quel

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Thu 5 Mar 2020

Faith

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

“Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.”

—Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Wed 4 Mar 2020

Attention

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

“We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, the procedure, prestige, and profit.”

—Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 3 Mar 2020

Exception

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

“Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.”

—William Hazlitt, Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucauld’s Maxims, No. 305

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Mon 2 Mar 2020

Sleep

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

“I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don’t know won’t hurt you. Sleep is death without responsibility.”

—Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Fri 28 Feb 2020

Obscure

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, sin, soul
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Random quote of the day:

“Sin is whatever obscures the soul.”

—Andre Gide, La Symphonie Pastorale

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Thu 27 Feb 2020

Target

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

“A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.”

—Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Aphorisms

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Wed 26 Feb 2020

Dictation

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

“When I cease to be carried along, when I no longer feel as though I were taking down dictation, I stop.”

—François Mauriac, The Paris Review, Summer 1953, No. 2

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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