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“There are people that need me. And that, in itself, is life. There are people I do not know yet that need me. That is life.”

—Bobby Mcilvaine, diary, August 20, 2001, quoted in “What Bobby Mcilvaine Left Behind,” The Atlantic, September 2021 by Jennifer Senior

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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“The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.”

—Albert Camus, Alger Républicain, October 20, 1938

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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“A life cannot be rushed, cannot be worked on a schedule as so many people want it to be. We must accept what comes to us at a given time, and not ask for more. But life is endless, so we never die; we were never really born. We just pass through different phases. There is no end. Humans have many dimensions. But time is not as we see time, but rather is lessons that are learned.”

—Brian L. Weiss, Many Lives, Many Masters

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“The art of mid-life is surely always cloudier than the art of youth, as life itself gets cloudier. But it would be disingenuous to pretend it is only that. I am a citizen as well as an individual soul and one of the things citizenship teaches us, over the long stretch, is that there is no perfectibility in human affairs. This fact, still obscure to the twenty-one-year-old, is a little clearer to the woman of forty-one.”

—Zadie Smith, “On Optimisim and Despair,” Feel Free

Random quote of the day:

“Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, letter to Countess Margot Sizzo-Noris-Crouy, 1923

Random quote of the day:

“By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.”

—Louise Erdrich, The Paris Review, Issue 195, Winter 2010

Random quote of the day:

“The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.”

—Walter Mosley, Black Genius: African-American Solutions to African-American Problems

Random quote of the day:

“they are hardly close to right,
these lives we live
one after the other,
piled there as history,
the waste of the species,
the crushing of the light and the way,
it’s not quite right,
it’s hardly right at all
he said.

—Charles Bukowski,
“Cut While Shaving”

Random quote of the day:

“Life is a dream. ‘Tis waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life—”

—Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography

Random quote of the day:

“The whole of life is just like watching a [film]….Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”

—Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

Random quote of the day:

“I'm thankful to say that life has been and is good to me. Because of this I believe my task is to be good to it in return. How do you be good to life? You live it well and hopefully make it good for others.”

—Morgan Freeman, Twitter, February 8, 2021

Random quote of the day:

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”

—Alfred Hitchcock, Picture Parade, BBC, 5 July 1960

Random quote of the day:

“Our life is shaped and determined by our thoughts. Usually we are only half conscious of the way thoughts direct our life; we are lost in thoughts as if they are reality.

—Jack Kornfield, “Let Go of Unhealthy Thoughts,” jackkornfield.com/wise-thought/

Random quote of the day:

“If our heart were large enough to love life in all its detail, we would see that every instant is at once a giver and a plunderer.”

—Gaston Bachelard, The Intuition of the Instant

Random quote of the day:

“The senseless destruction of living things and all the sorrows of humanity count for nothing in the great whole.—The death of a sensitive man expiring in the company of his disconsolate friends, and that of a butterfly cut down by the chill morning air inside the calyx of a flower, are similar moments in the course of nature. Man is nothing but a phantom, a shadow, a mist that scatters in the air.”

—Xavier de Maistre, Journey Around My Room (tr. Stephen Sartarelli)

Random quote of the day:

“I wanted to live my life so that people would know unmistakably that I am alive, so that when I finally die people will know the difference for sure between my living and my death.”

—June Jordan, “Many Rivers to Cross,” Some of Us Did Not Die

Random quote of the day:

Barter

Life has loveliness to sell—
   All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
   Climbing fire that sways and sings,
And children’s faces looking up
Holding wonder like a cup.

Life has loveliness to sell—
   Music like a curve of gold,
Scent of pine trees in the rain,
   Eyes that love you, arms that hold,
And for your spirit’s still delight,
Holy thoughts that star the night.

Spend all you have for loveliness,
   Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of peace
   Count many a year of strife well lost,
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been or could be.

—Sara Teasdale

Random quote of the day:

“Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.”

—T. E. Lawrence, The Mint

Random quote of the day:

“The seeds that once were we take flight and fly,
Winnowed to earth, or whirled along the sky,
Not lost but disunited. Life lives on.
It is the lives, the lives, the lives, that die.”

—Lucretius, Of the Nature of Things (tr.William Ellery Leonard)

Random quote of the day:

“A writer can have, ultimately, one of two styles: he can write in a manner that implies death is inevitable, or he can write in a manner that implies that death is not inevitable….If you write as if you believe that ultimately you and everyone else alive will be dead, there is a chance that you will write in a pretty earnest style. Otherwise you are apt to be either pompous or soft. On the other hand, in order not to be a fool, you must believe that as much as death is inevitable life is inevitable.

—William Saroyan, preface to The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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