Thu 24 Apr 2014
Posted by PJ under flattery, quote of the day
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“Flattery won’t hurt you if you don’t swallow it.”
—Kin Hubbard, Short Furrows
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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 23 Apr 2014
Posted by PJ under hatred, quote of the day, self-knowledge
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“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
—Hermann Hesse, Demian, tr. Hilda Rosner
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Tue 22 Apr 2014
Posted by PJ under belief, gods, quote of the day
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“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
—Blaise Pascal, Pascal’s Wager, from Pensées
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Mon 21 Apr 2014
Posted by PJ under free will, quote of the day
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“Choice is all you ever own.”
—Skyler White, and Falling, Fly
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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Fri 18 Apr 2014
Posted by PJ under memories, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“During the last years the suggestion has come to me from various quarters that I should do something akin to an autobiography. I have been unable to conceive of my doing anything of the sort. I know too many autobiographies, with their self-deceptions and downright lies, and I know too much about the impossibility of self-portrayal, to want to venture on any such attempt.”
—Carl Jung, letter to Aniela Jaffé, quoted in the Introduction to Memories, Dreams, Reflections
 Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Thu 17 Apr 2014
Posted by PJ under control, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“You are in control of your life. Don’t ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.”
—Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans
I don’t usually inject my own opinion into the quotes, preferring to let people make up their own minds about things. But this quote strikes me as particularly ironic in regards to my own life. You see, the lesson I have been learning, constantly reinforced over recent months and years, is that control is an illusion that we humans comfort ourselves with. I do believe we have free will, but often that amounts to how we react to the uncontrollable forces that swirl around us. You may, of course, have another opinion—such is the nature of opinions. And I have no control over that.
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Tue 15 Apr 2014
Posted by PJ under monsters, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146, tr. Hollingdale
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Mon 14 Apr 2014
Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:
“Every successful creative person creates with an audience of one in mind. That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, interview, The Paris Review, Issue 69, Spring 1977
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Thu 10 Apr 2014
Posted by PJ under happiness, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”
—Russian proverb
(Variously misattributed to Ingrid Bergman, Albert Schweitzer, and even Phil Spector.)
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 9 Apr 2014
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the past
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Random quote of the day:
“Must living always be in the past, must all activity spring from the past, is all relationship the outcome of the past, is living the complex memory of the past? That is all we know—the past modifying the present. And the future is the outcome of this past acting through the present. So the past, the present and the future are all the past. And this past is what we call living.”
—J. Krishnamurti, “How To Live In This World,†The Urgency of Change
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
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