From Rabindranath Tagore: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
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Quote of the day 09/18/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, butfor the heart to conquer it.”
Quote of the day 09/15/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.”
Quote of the day 08/20/24
From Jack London: “Every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased.”
Quote of the day 08/19/24
From Jack London: “There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.”
Quote of the day 08/18/24
From Jack London: “And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.”
Quote of the day 08/17/24
From Jack London: “Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
Quote of the day 08/16/24
From Jack London: “Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
Quote of the day 08/15/24
From Jack London: “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
Quote of the day 08/14/24
From John Steinbeck: “No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
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