“We should always be asking ourselves: ‘Is this something that is, or is not, in my control?’” ~ Epictetus, Enchiridion
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
Jul 22
June 2020 – Quote of the Month
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
Jun 28
May 2020 – Quote of the Month
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ~Pablo Neruda
May 31
April 2020 – Quote of the Month
“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” ~Yoko Ono
Apr 26
March 2020 – Quote of the Month
“Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unkown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun.” ~LegolasThe Two TowersThe Lord of the RingsJRR Tolkien
Mar 28
February 2020 – Quote of the Month
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always …
Jan 26
December 2019 – Quote of the Month
“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.” ~Charles Dickens
Dec 30
November 2019 – Quote of the Month
“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” ~Epictetus
Nov 30
October 2019 – 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 17
September 2019 – Quote of the Month
“Change. How do you change yourself?… It’s easy to lose yourself or never find yourself. The older you get, the heavier that baggage becomes that you haven’t sorted through, so you run. I’ve done a lot of that kind of running. I’ve spent 35 years trying learn how to let go of the destructive parts …
Sep 27
August 2019 – Quote of the Month
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ~Isaac Asimov
Aug 20
July 2019 – Quote of the Month
“Here is one way to conceptualize NASA’s heroic era: in 1961, Kennedy gave his “moon speech” to Congress, charging them to put an American on the moon “before the decade is out.” In the eight years that unspooled between Kennedy’s speech and Neil Armstrong’s first historic bootprint, NASA, a newborn government agency, established sites and …
Jul 21
June 2019 – Quote of the Month
“Had enough of heartbreak and painI had a little sweet spot for the rainFor the rain and skies of greyHello sunshine, won’t you stay?” ~ Bruce Springsteen
Jun 21
May 2019 – Quote of the Month
“I’ve got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts – you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn’t do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.” ~ D.D. Barant, Dying Bites
May 17
April 2019 – Quote of the Month
“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” ~ John Keats
Apr 10
March 2019 – Quote of the Month
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mar 31
February 2019 – Quote of the Month
“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.” ~Elbert Hubbard
Feb 25
January 2019 – Quote of the Month
“How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.” ~Keanu Reeves
Jan 29
December 2018 – Quote of the Month
“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” ~Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireJ.K. Rowling
Nov 01
October 2018 – Quote of the Month
“Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make.” ~ Bram Stoker Dracula
Oct 01
September 2018 – Quote of the Month
“Oh, life is like that. Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at its zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters descend upon us.” ~ Ralphie (Narrator) A Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd
Sep 18
August 2018 – Quote of the Month
“I don’t want to hear the specials. If they’re so special, put ’em on the menu.” ~ Jerry Seinfeld
Aug 09
July 2018 – Quote of the Month
“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people …
Jul 13
June 2018 – Quote of the Month
“Thus mystery is made a convenient cover for absurdity.” ~John Adams
May 17
April 2018 – Quote of the Month
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ~Alice Walker
Apr 17
March 2018 – Quote of the Month
“‘Time does not tarry ever,’ he said; ‘but change and growth is not in all things and places alike. For the Elves the world moves, and it moves both very swift and very slow. Swift, because they themselves change little, and all else fleets by: it is a grief to them. Slow, because they do …
Mar 08
February 2018 – Quote of the Month
“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.” ~Oscar Wilde
Feb 08
January 2018 – Quote of the Month
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” ~Jane Austen
Jan 09
December 2017 – Quote of the Month
“National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.” ~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Dec 03
November 2017 – Quote of the Month
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.” ~ Voltaire
Nov 13
October 2017 – Quote of the Month
“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” ~ Albert Einstein
Oct 12
September 2017 – Quote of the Month
“This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.” ~ Mary Hunter Austin
Sep 13
August 2017 – Quote of the Month
“I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school. They often have humility and artistry. So, as much as I feel bad for kids who have to go through a rough childhood, I believe that if they can turn it around, it’s …
Aug 09
July 2017 – Quote of the Month
“The crucial test of ethical values is whether they apply to strangers, and those afar, not just in our midst.” ~ Bernard Crick, Essays on Citizenship, 2000
Jul 17
June 2017 – Quote of the Month
“Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
Jun 21
May 2017 – Quote of the Month
“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” ~ George Orwell
May 01
April 2017 – Quote of the Month
“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.” ~ Frank Herbert
Apr 07
March 2017 – Quote of the Month
“Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men …
Mar 09
February 2017 – Quote of the Month
“A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.” ~ Crystal Eastman
Feb 05
January 2017 – Quote of the Month
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’” ~ The Shadow of …
Jan 12
December 2016 – Quote of the Month
“The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic.” ~ Chris Hedges
Dec 01
November 2016 – Quote of the Month
“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.” ~ Wendell Berry
Nov 08
October 2016 – Quote of the Month
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, The …
Oct 12
September 2016 – Quote of the Month
“Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
Sep 01
August 2016 – Quote of the Month
“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” ~George Orwell
Aug 03
July 2016 – Quote of the Month
“My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as …
Jul 08
June 2016 – Quote of the Month
“While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.” ~Ethan Allen
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