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Mon 29 Jul 2019

Violin

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

“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”

—Samuel Butler, speech at the Somerville Club, February 27, 1895

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 26 Jul 2019

Taboo

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Random quote of the day:

“Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing.”

—Henry Miller, The Paris Review, Summer-Fall 1962, No. 28

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 25 Jul 2019

Seeking

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, seeking, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.”

—Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

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 24 Jul 2019

Fiddling

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

“When you start any book you don’t know what, ultimately, your issues are. You try to write to find them. You’re fiddling with the stuff, hoping to make sense, whatever kind of sense you can make.”

—Robert Penn Warren, The Paris Review, Spring-Summer 1957, No. 16

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 23 Jul 2019

Inside

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

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”

—José Saramago, Blindness

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 22 Jul 2019

Clunker

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

“Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?”

—Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

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 19 Jul 2019

Zen

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

“Zen pretty much comes down to three things—everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”

—Jane Hirshfield, interview, Fooling With Words by Bill Moyers

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 18 Jul 2019

Unfillable

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

“There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate—the genetic and neural fate—of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.”

—Oliver Sacks, “My Own Life: Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer,” New York Times, February 19, 2015

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 17 Jul 2019

Interrupted

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

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”

—Jules Renard, Journal, 10 April 1895

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 16 Jul 2019

Purpose

Posted by PJ under purpose, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.”

—Søren Kierkegaard, “Gilleleie,” Journal 1A, 1 August 1835

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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