From Gautama Buddha: “Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.”
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Quote of the day 10/04/25
From Śāntideva: “All that may be wished for will by nature fade to nothing.”
Quote of the day 08/01/25
From John Keats: “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
Quote of the day 07/29/25
From John Donne: “All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated… As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, butContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/29/25”
Quote of the day 07/24/25
From John Donne: “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
Quote of the day 06/12/25
From Katha Sarit Sagara: “Why should we cling to this perishable body? In the eye of the wise, the only thing it is good for is to benefit one’s fellow-creatures.”
Quote of the day 10/09/24
From Mahatma Gandhi: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Quote of the day 09/21/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
Quote of the day 06/30/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The eye turned to the fire gave back no light and he closed it with his thumb and sat by her and put his hand upon her bloodied forehead and closed his own eyes that he could see her running in the mountains, running in the starlight where the grass was wetContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/30/24”
Quote of the day 02/04/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”