Daily Quotes

[Tamrin]

We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what
or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and
suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes


It has often struck me with awe that some of the most deeply
religious people I know have been, on the surface, atheists


I wish that we worried more about asking the right
questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers


The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once
and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily


Nothing important is completely explicable


A comprehensible God is no more than an idol


Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist


Madeleine L'Engle
American writer and poet (A Wrinkle in Time)
(Born this day 1918)



The light shines in the darkness and the darkness
does not understand it, and cannot extinguish it

[Tamrin]

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle


One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone


The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible


France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions


If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment,
we shall create a community listened to around the world


Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face


Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature mutilated, overexploited is not able
to recover and we refuse to admit it. From North to South, it suffers from ill-development,
and we are indifferent. Earth and humanity are in great peril and we are accountable


Jacques Chirac
French politician (President 1995 - 2007)
(Born this day 1932)



As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries
will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

[Tamrin]

At least in a book I am away from my body for a while.
But I want to do things, not just read about them. I want my life


We're all bits that the war didn't take, Flinty thought, gazing at the
stranger's back. But those left behind had a right to know more
about the beast who'd chewed their lives and spat the remnants out


With life came loss. The war and the years since had taught her that.
There's be sadness in her life to come, as well as happiness.
Even the most blessed lives had both. She'd live them as they came


Why is it that you can bear pain, but someone's kindness makes you cry?


I think of pain differently now. There is pain that hurts, pain that
is so bad you can no longer feel it. Your body just says 'hold on'


Life should be good — Life should be very, very good — and the only
duty we have to the dead is to make it good for ourselves and other people


Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death
can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!


Jackie French
Australian author (To the Moon and Back)
(Born this day 1953)



Morning: Slept.
Afternoon: Slept.
Evening: Ate grass.
Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring.
Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits.
Slept

(Diary of a Wombat)

[Tamrin]

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily
see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it


If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something with-
out proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you
can actually obtain God perception. In that way you can see, hear and play
with God. Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you


Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life,
keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me cope, with this
heavy load, trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul


All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just
as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combin-
ations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres,
with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture.
One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is
only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality


Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to.
Think for yourself 'cause I won't be there with you


If everybody who had a gun just shot themselves there wouldn’t be a problem


I look at the world and I notice it’s turning. While my guitar gently weeps.
With every mistake we must surely be learning, Still my guitar gently weeps


George Harrison, MBE
British musician (Beatles)
(Died this day 2001)



The more I learn the less I know

[Tamrin]

Saturday’s Quotes:

Those whom Gods wish to destroy, they first make angry


Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing


Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish


Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise,
the man who lets the contest fall is wise


No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law,
or other people restraining them from acting according to their will


Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves


No one is happy all his life long


Euripides, Athenian tragic dramatist
(Died this day 406 BCE)



All is change; all yields its place and goes

[Tamrin]

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart


Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
as to conceive how others can be in want


Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud;
and pride and hunger will ever be at variance


I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in
any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country.
Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution


I never wonder to see men wicked,
but I often wonder to see them not ashamed


No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life,
as not to receive new information from age and experience


Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old


Bro. Jonathan Swift
Irish-born English satirist and author
(Born this day 1667)



He was a bold man that first ate on oyster

[Tamrin]

When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained


A man is accepted into a church for what he
believes and he is turned out for what he knows


It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand
that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand


O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells;
help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead;
help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the wounded, writhing in pain;
help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to
wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to
turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended through
wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sport of the sun-
flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with
travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes,
who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter
pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the
white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask of one who is the
Spirit of love and who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore
beset, and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Grant our prayer,
O Lord and Thine shall be the praise and honor and glory now and ever, Amen


If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything


It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so


I am an old man and have known a great many troubles,
but most of them never happened


Bro. Samuel Clemens, (aka Mark Twain)
US author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn)
(Born this day 1835)



I am a revolutionist — by birth, breeding, principle, and everything else

[Tamrin]

It is a fine thing to be honest but it is also very important to be right


If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever.
Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again.
Then hit it a third time — a tremendous whack


A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of
obstacles and dangers and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality


All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope


Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened


The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries


You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life


Bro. Winston Churchill
British PM (1940-45, 1951-55; Nobel 1953)
(Born this day 1874)



Never, never, never give up

[Tamrin]

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and
conventional where depth and originality are wasted


Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't
can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.


We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed.
Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great


We should regret our mistakes and learn from them,
but never carry them forward into the future with us


It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry


There are so many unpleasant things in the world
already that there is no use in imagining any more


Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star


Lucy Maud Montgomery
Canadian author (Anne of Green Gables)
(Born this day 1874)



It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

[Tamrin]

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who
exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised


I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture
of my age... The gods had given me almost everything. I had
genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy,
intellectual daring; I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art:
I altered the minds of men and the colour of things: there was nothing
I said or did that did not make people wonder ... I treated Art as the
supreme reality, and life as a mere mode of fiction: I awoke the imag-
ination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me:
I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram


A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally


The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple


The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible


A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it


Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future


Bro. Oscar Wilde
Irish author (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
(Died this day 1900)



I think I am rather more than a Socialist. I am something of an Anarchist, I believe