From Henri Bergson: “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
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Quote of the day 08/17/25
From E.E. Cummings: “Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody but yourself.”
Quote of the day 08/16/25
From E.E Cummings: “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),It’s always our self we find in the sea.”
Quote of the day 08/14/25
From E.E. Cummings: “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
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 07/28/25
From John Donne: “That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.”
Quote of the day 06/15/25
From the Udanavarga: “Though a man conquer a thousand thousand men in battle, a greater conqueror still is he who conquers himself.”
Quote of the day 06/05/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…when we think about ourselves, we are deeply conscious of our physical pains and pleasure, but if we forget ourselves, the body too, becoming one with the mind, is hardly aware of its pain and pleasure, cold and heat. How much our happiness depends upon the condition of our minds, is shownContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/05/25”
Quote of the day 05/31/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Zen says, Look within! Wordsworth says, Look without! but there is no more difference here than in the case of Self-Power and Other-Power. Self-Power is Other-Power, because Self is Other. Looking at the microcosm is looking at the macrocosm, for one without the other is meaningless.”
Quote of the day 05/25/25
From Miyamoto Musashi: “Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.”
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