From Haruki Murakami: “A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”
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Quote of the day 08/25/25
From Haruki Murakami: “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
Quote of the day 08/20/25
From Henri Bergson: “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
Quote of the day 08/10/25
From John Keats: “Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwardsContinue reading “Quote of the day 08/10/25”
Quote of the day 08/07/25
From John Keats: “The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing — to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”
Quote of the day 07/31/25
From John Keats: “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
Quote of the day 07/19/25
From Basho: “In the end, without skill or talent, I’ve given myself over entirely to poetry. Po Chu-i labored at it until he nearly burst. Tu Fu starved rather than abandon it. Neither my intelligence nor my writing is comparable to such men. Nevertheless, in the end, we ALL live in phantom huts.”
Quote of the day 07/17/25
From Basho: “No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.”
Quote of the day 07/04/25
From Thomas Paine: “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.”
Quote of the day 06/30/25
From the Dhammapada: “He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot—him I call a real driver: other people are merely holding the reins.”
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