From Dogen: “Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.”
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Quote of the day 04/24/24
From William Faulkner: “It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.”
Quote of the day 04/23/24
From William Faulkner: “Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.”
Quote of the day 04/22/24
From William Faulkner: “Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.”
Quote of the day 04/21/24
From William Faulkner: “The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
Quote of the day 04/20/24
From William Faulkner: “Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
Quote of the day 04/19/24
From Ernest Hemingway: “I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.”
Quote of the day 04/18/24
From Ernest Hemingway: “I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.”
Quote of the day 04/17/24
From Ernest Hemingway: “Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.”
Quote of the day 04/16/24
From Ernest Hemingway: “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”