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Quote of the day 08/29/25

From Haruki Murakami: “As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.”

Quote of the day 08/28/25

From Haruki Murakami: “I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”

Quote of the day 08/27/25

From Haruki Murakami: “It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”

Quote of the day 08/26/25

From Haruki Murakami: “Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”

Quote of the day 08/25/25

From Haruki Murakami: “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

Quote of the day 08/24/25

From Haruki Murakami: “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

Quote of the day 07/27/25

From John Donne: “He that desires to print a book should much more desire to be a book.”

Quote of the day 06/11/25

From Edwin Arnold: “Steadfast a lamp burns sheltered from the wind;Such is the likeness of the Yogi’s mindShut from sense-storms and burning bright to Heaven.”

From R.H. Blyth: “In conclusion, let us say that Shakespeare had a religion, a religion which could ask and answer the question which Macduff asked, when his wife and children were all murdered at one fell swoop: ‘Did heaven look on, And would not take their part?’ What is the answer to the question? ItContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/10/25”

Quote of the day 06/09/25

From R.H. Blyth: “It is only the simple but far-reaching fact that Goodness is on the side of goodness rather than badness, that is to say, the fact that evil in its own nature destroys itself, that makes Iago a failure.”