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Category: Quote of the Month
Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink. ~Terri Guillemets
Dec 30
November 2025 – Quote of the Month
“I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.” ~Clarence Darrow
Nov 25
October 2025 – Quote of the Month
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” ~ John Barrymore
Oct 20
September 2025 – Quote of the Month
“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” ~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Sep 28
August 2025 – Quote of the Month
“If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t — if they have …
Aug 22
July 2025 – Quote of the Month
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
Jul 30
June 2025 – Quote of the Month
“It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does. It can hurt to walk down a hallway or open the fridge. It hurts to put on a pair of socks, to brush your teeth. Food tastes like nothing. Colors go flat. Music hurts, and so do memories. You look at something you’d otherwise …
Jun 27
May 2025 – Quote of the Month
“There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can’t prove that there aren’t any, so shouldn’t we be agnostic with respect to fairies?” ~ Richard Dawkins
May 24
April 2025 – Quote of the Month
“Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.” ~ Madalyn Murray O’Hair
Apr 28
March 2025 – Quote of the Month
“Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.” ~ Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
Mar 24
February 2025 – Quote of the Month
“The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do.” ~ John Holt
Feb 20
January 2025 – Quote of the Month
“Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated by self-destruction. As a German saying puts it: ‘Better an end with terror than a terror without end.” ~ Robert …
Jan 15
December 2024 – Quote of the Month
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” ~ Hector Berlioz
Dec 18
November 2024 – Quote of the Month
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a …
Nov 18
October 2024 – Quote of the Month
“Some days you think you can’t go on because the only thing waiting for you is more despair. Some days you don’t want to go on because it’s easier to give up than to get hurt again.” ~ Marieke Nijkamp; This Is Where It Ends
Oct 29
September 2024 – Quote of the Month
“What words are these have falle’n from me?Can calm despair and wild unrestBe tenants of a single breast,Or sorrow such a changeling be?” ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson; In Memoriam A. H. H.
Sep 19
August 2024 – Quote of the Month
“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.” ~ Herodotus, The Histories
Aug 26
July 2024 – Quote of the Month
“The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.” ~Edvard Munch
Jul 17
June 2024 – Quote of the Month
“I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.” ~Erin Morgenstern
Jun 27
May 2024 – Quote of the Month
“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.” ~Edmund Burke
May 27
April 2024 – Quote of the Month
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” ~Anatole France
Apr 27
March 2024 – Quote of the Month
“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.” ~ Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
Mar 31
February 2024 – Quote of the Month
“There should have been a better farewell. But in the end, there never is. And we take what meagre scraps we can find.” ~ Richard K. Morgan
Feb 28
January 2024 – Quote of the Month
“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Nov 27
October 2023 – Quote of the Month
“You don’t waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets, and there would be weeks of gray before it finally decided to snow.” ~ Katherine Arden, Small Spaces
Oct 24
September 2023 – Quote of the Month
“The blues don’t jump right on you. They come creeping.” ~ Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run (Autobiography)
Sep 19
August 2023 – Quote of the Month
“His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien, (Aragorn), The Return of the King
Aug 22
July 2023 – Quote of the Month
“Americans used to be ‘citizens.’ Now we are ‘consumers.” ~Vicki Robin, Your Money or Your Life
Jul 09
June 2023 – Quote of the Month
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.” ~ Charlie Chaplin
May 15
May 2023 – Quote of the Month
“When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.” ~ Minnie Aumonier
Apr 27
April 2023 – Quote of the Month
“If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.” ~Warren Buffet
Apr 26
March 2023 – Quote of the Month
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” ~Henry David Thoreau
Mar 26
February 2023 – Quote of the Month
“That which isn’t good for the hive, isn’t good for the bee.” ~Marcus Aurelius
Feb 26
January 2023 – Quote of the Month
“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? ~Marcus Aurelius
Jan 30
December 2022 – Quote of the Month
“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dec 26
November 2022 – Quote of the Month
“I think it’s perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don’t know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it’s because he’s ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they’re responsible …
Nov 19
October 2022 – Quote of the Month
“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.” ~Robert Brault
Oct 20
September 2022 – Quote of the Month
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ~Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Sep 27
August 2022 – Quote of the Month
“Fantasy, if it’s really convincing, can’t become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.” ~Walt Disney
Jul 01
June 2022 – Quote of the Month
“You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Jun 01
May 2022 – Quote of the Month
“Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to Nature.” ~Marcus Aurelius
May 19
April 2022 – Quote of the Month
“I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don’t feel like that now. I feel that as long …
Apr 28
March 2022 – Quote of the Month
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ~Albert Einstein
Mar 28
February 2022 – Quote of the Month
“Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those …
Feb 04
January 2022 – Quote of the Month
“If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.” ~Edmund Hillary
Jan 22
December 2021 – Quote of the Month
“The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.” ~Conrad Anker
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