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Random quote of the day:

“For one human being to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (tr. D. Herter Norton)

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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“Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.”

—Susan Sontag, diary, August 29, 1965

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“The ‘bleeding hearts’ who want love without anger, relationship without conflict, harmony without contradictions, are forced to create an illusory world of unambivalent love.…It is not accidental that such perfect persons (who never question their own motives or suspect their hidden ideology or self-interest) make others feel tainted and guilty. Every sentimental sermon is served with a side-dish of guilt. In their presence, honest doubt is named cynicism, anger is called evil, and ambivalence is castigated as craziness.”

—Sam Keen, The Passionate Life

Random quote of the day:

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”

—C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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“The color and the lines contain your character and your message. If all of life moves inevitably towards its end, we must, during ours, color it with all our colors of love and hope.

—Marc Chagall, speech at the dedication of the Musée National Biblique, 1973

Random quote of the day:

“Hallelujah: only a songwriter believes
the best way into a lover’s heart is to tell you
all your secrets in public.”

—Shayla Lawson, “Songs for Women”

Random quote of the day:

“Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

—Edward Abbey, Down the River

Random quote of the day:

“Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.”

—Reverend Bernice B. King, The Atlantic, March 1, 2018

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“Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?" Or is it possible for the lamp to say, "I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people"? Or can a tree say, "I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? These are images of what love is about.

—Anthony de Mello, “How Happiness Happens,” Awareness: The perils and opportunities of reality

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

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.

Random quote of the day:

“Magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.”

—W. Somerset Maugham, The Magician: A Novel

Random quote of the day:

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds, it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings, but never a natural death. Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love.”

—Anaïs Nin, The Four-chambered Heart, Vol. 3

Random quote of the day:

“Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to little peanut it will give up its secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough. In a crowded auditorium of people I can pick out the spiritual souls almost at a glance.

―George Washington Carver, quoted in The Man Who Talks With Flowers by Glenn Clark

Random quote of the day:

“Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows.”

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

The random quote of the day will be on vacation until January 3, 2022. Happy holidays everyone!

Random quote of the day:

“The thought manifests as the word,
The word manifests as the deed,
The deed develops into a habit,
And habit hardens in character,

So watch the thought and it’s ways with care,
And let it spring from love,
Born out of concern for all beings…

As the shadow follows the body,
As we think so we become.

—Buddha, The Dhammapada

Random quote of the day:

“Love one another, but make not a bond
of love:
     Let it rather be a moving sea between
the shores of your souls.
     Fill each other’s cup but drink not from
one cup.
     Give one another of your bread but eat
not from the same loaf.
     Sing and dance together and be joyous,
but let each one of you be alone,
     Even as the strings of a lute are alone
though they quiver with the same music.

—Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Current Mood: uncomfortable

Random quote of the day:

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties (tr. John J. L. Mood)

Random quote of the day:

“Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.”

—Robert Brault, “Thoughts By the Sea,” The New Robert Brault Reader

Random quote of the day:

“A faithful love—if it does not wear out—is a way for man to maintain as long as possible the best of himself. This is how fidelity is given new value.”

—Albert Camus, Notebooks 1942-1952, tr. Justin O’Brien

Random quote of the day:

“The night loves the stars as they play about the Darkness … the day loves the light caressing the sun … We love … those who do … because we live in a world requiring light and Darkness … partnership and solitude … sameness and difference … the familiar and the unknown … We love because it’s the only true adventure …”

—Nikki Giovanni, “Love Is A Human Condition”

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