December 22
2004
- Good fortune attend each merry man's friend
That doth but the best that he may,
Forgetting old wrongs with carols and songs
To drive the cold winter away.
~ "All Hail to The Days" (or "The Praise of Christmas") ~
Traditional 17th century English carol- selected by Kalki
2005
- My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. ~ George Eliot (died 22 December 1880)
- proposed by UDScott
2006
- It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence. ~ Kenneth Rexroth
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2007
- The holiness of the real
Is always there, accessible
In total immanence. The nodes
Of transcendence coagulate
In you, the experiencer,
And in the other, the lover.
~ Kenneth Rexroth ~- proposed by Kalki
2008
Suggestions
When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too. ~ Kenneth Rexroth (born December 22, 1905)- 3 InvisibleSun 21:00, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:05, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 21:27, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 20:13, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy. ~ Kenneth Rexroth
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:00, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:05, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 21:27, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 20:13, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making State, it is not very available, nor is it surely enduring. But then, vision does not come with guarantees. ~ Kenneth Rexroth
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:00, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- 2. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:05, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 20:13, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
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Your Dollar is your only Word,
The wrath of it your only fear.
You build it altars tall enough
To make you see, but you are blind;
You cannot leave it long enough
To look before you or behind.
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 2 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
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Are we no greater than the noise we make
Along one blind atomic pilgrimage
Whereon by crass chance billeted we go
Because our brains and bones and cartilage
Will have it so?
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 2 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
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My only hope lies in my despair. ~ Jean Racine
- 2 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale. ~ Charles de Lint
- 3 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
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When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it. ~ Charles de Lint
- 3 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
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If you're not ready to die, then how can you live? ~ Charles de Lint
- 2 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
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That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you. ~ Charles de Lint
- 3 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
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It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy. ~ Charles de Lint
- 4 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC) might give this a 3 eventually
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
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Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? ~ Charles de Lint
- 3 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged. ~ Charles de Lint
- 3 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
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Life's like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. ~ Charles de Lint
- 2 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
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While you live ... you have a duty to life. ... The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. ... Otherwise they fade away. ~ Charles de Lint
- 4 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 14:59, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
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It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn... ~ Charles de Lint
- 3 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 14:59, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds ~ George Eliot ~
- 3 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 14:59, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. ~ George Eliot ~
- 3 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 14:59, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
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The song shall spread and swell as rivers do,
And I will teach our youth with skill to woo
This living lyre, to know its secret will;
Its fine division of the good and ill.
So shall men call me sire of harmony,
And where great Song is, there my life shall be.
~ George Eliot ~
- 3 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 14:59, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. ~ George Eliot ~
- 3 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 14:59, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
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