Fri 12 Jun 2015

That’s the question

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

“Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we’ve long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve of a tall black hat on its head, and realizing it was a question mark all along.”

—David James Duncan, “Six Henry Stories,” My Story as told by Water

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Thu 11 Jun 2015

Chameleon

Posted by PJ under personality, quote of the day, society
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Random quote of the day:

“The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.”

—Oscar Wilde, “Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young,” The Chameleon, December 1894

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Wed 10 Jun 2015

Get it?

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

“I do not “get” ideas; ideas get me.”

—Robertson Davies, “We Must Sing with the Voices God Gave Us,” Toronto Star, 19 September 1987

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Tue 9 Jun 2015

The good book

Posted by PJ under books, quote of the day, reading
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Random quote of the day:

“Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”

—Alain de Botton, Twitterfeed, 2/5/12

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Fri 5 Jun 2015

Sunshine

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

“A good laugh is sunshine in the house.”

—Vietnamese proverb

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Thu 4 Jun 2015

Clean sweep

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

“When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out of your mind all the worn and shabby furniture of thought. You wish to refurbish yourself with living thought so you can begin to see.”

—John O’Donohue, “The Question Holds the Lantern,” www.johnodonohue.com/words/question

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Wed 3 Jun 2015

Live until you die

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

“A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.”

—A. C. Grayling, “This Much I Know,” The Guardian, July 4, 2009

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Tue 2 Jun 2015

I vice, therefore I am

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

“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.”

—Ernest Hemingway, Conversations with Ernest Hemingway, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli

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Mon 1 Jun 2015

Going home

Posted by PJ under home, meaning, quote of the day, walking
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Random quote of the day:

“We’re all just walking each other home.”

—Ram Dass

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Fri 29 May 2015

Mysterioso

Posted by PJ under knowledge, mysteries, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The real trick is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.”

—Fred Alan Wolf, Foreword, Do You Quantum Think? by Dianne Collins

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