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Tue 13 Aug 2019

Yourself

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

“Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.”

—Jane Hirshfield, “Envy: An Assay”

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 12 Aug 2019

Memory

Posted by PJ under memories, poetry, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Memory insists with its sea voice
muttering from its bone cave.
Memory wraps us
like the shell wraps the sea.”

—Anne Michaels, “Memoriam”

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 9 Aug 2019

Face

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

“Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.”

—Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts

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 8 Aug 2019

Dead

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the dead, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“If you will remember that living people are as good as dead, you will be able to perceive much that is very funny in their conduct that you perhaps might never have thought of perceiving if you did not believe that they were as good as dead.”

—William Saroyan, preface to The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1931)

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 7 Aug 2019

Storytelling

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

“Storytelling trumps beautiful writing every time.”

—Lisa Cron, Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

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 6 Aug 2019

Fools

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

“If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.”

—Mark Twain, letter to Olivia Clemens, January 23, 1885

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 5 Aug 2019

Spirit

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, silence, spirit
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Random quote of the day:

“If I cannot receive the gifts of the Spirit in silence, I will never be able to receive them in any other way.”

—Madeleine L’Engle, The Irrational Season

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 2 Aug 2019

Inside

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

“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want….We work with being, but non-being is what we use.”

—Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Ch. 11 (tr. Stephen Mitchell)

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 1 Aug 2019

Tranquility

Posted by PJ under peace, quote of the day, silence
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Random quote of the day:

“The fruit of silence is tranquility.”

—Moroccan proverb

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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