January 14
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2004
- Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy — in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other ~ Robert Heinlein in Stranger In A Strange Land
- selected by Kalki
2005
- Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. ~ Æschylus
- selected by Kalki
2006
- Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage. ~ Albert Schweitzer (born 14 January 1875)
- selected by Kalki
2007
- Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying.
Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd. ~ Robert Anton Wilson (recent death)- proposed by Kalki
2008
- At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it. ~ Yukio Mishima (born January 14, 1925)
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2009
Suggestions
Let me die in this old uniform in which I fought my battles. May God forgive me for ever having put on another. ~ Benedict Arnold (born January 14)- 3 because this is a perfect example of one trying to gain redemption for one's own betrayal. Beautiful. Zarbon 16:24, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- SOURCE: The Morning of America - Page 209 by Frank Joseph Klingberg - United States - 1941
- 2 Kalki 15:51, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. That is possible for him who never argues and strives with men and facts, but in all experience retires upon himself, and looks for the ultimate cause of things in himself. ~ Albert Schweitzer
- 4 because blaming others is easy, but taking responsibility for one's own life is admirable. Zarbon 05:04, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 15:03, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
3 Kalki 15:51, 6 January 2009 (UTC)tactical shift in ranking: I rate this highly, and might rank it a 3 again or even a 4 eventually, but don't value it as highly as Schweitzer's mention of his first thoughts of the phrase "Reverence for Life" which I rank 4 below. - 3 InvisibleSun 23:07, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
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The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust. ~ Albert Schweitzer
- 3 because trust is not easily earned. Zarbon 05:04, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 15:51, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:07, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
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It does not matter so much what you do. What matters is whether your soul is harmed by what you do. If your soul is harmed, something irreparable happens, the extent of which you won't realize until it will be too late. ~ Albert Schweitzer
- 3 because the damaged soul begs for redemption. Zarbon 05:04, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 15:51, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:07, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
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To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe. ~ Albert Schweitzer
- 3 Kalki 15:51, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 05:29, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:07, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
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In my great tiredness and discouragement, the phrase, Reverence for Life, struck me like a flash. As far as I knew, it was a phrase I had never heard nor ever read. I realized at once that it carried within itself the solution to the problem that had been torturing me. Now I knew that a system of values which concerns itself only with our relationship to other people is incomplete and therefore lacking in power for good. Only by means of reverence for life can we establish a spiritual and humane relationship with both people and all living creatures within our reach. Only in this fashion can we avoid harming others, and, within the limits of our capacity, go to their aid whenever they need us. ~ Albert Schweitzer
- 4 Kalki 15:51, 6 January 2009 (UTC) On the origins of his expression of Reverence for Life.
- 2 Zarbon 05:29, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:07, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
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