November 27

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2003

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank You', that would suffice. ~ Meister Eckhart

• selected by Kalki

2004

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. ~ Elbert Hubbard

• selected by Kalki

2005

Put every great teacher together in a room, and they'd agree about everything, put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything. ~ Bruce Lee

• proposed by Kalki

2006

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it. ~ Bruce Lee

• proposed by Kalki

2007

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. ~ Bruce Lee

• proposed by Kalki

2008

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there. ~ Bruce Lee

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and NOTHING is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing. OPEN yourelf and flow, my friend. Flow in the TOTAL OPENESS OF THE LIVING MOMENT. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. ~ Bruce Lee

• proposed by Kalki

2010

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself. ~ Bruce Lee

• proposed by Kalki

2011

Acting funny, but I don't know why,
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky. ~ Jimi Hendrix

• proposed by Kalki

2012

The brain is waking and with it the mind is returning. It is as if the Milky Way entered upon some cosmic dance. Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one; a shifting harmony of subpatterns. Now as the waking body rouses, subpatterns of this great harmony of activity stretch down into the unlit tracks of the stalk-piece of the scheme. Strings of flashing and travelling sparks engage the lengths of it. This means that the body is up and rises to meet its waking day.

~ Charles Scott Sherrington ~

• proposed by bystander

2013

Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

~ Bruce Lee ~

• proposed by UDScott

2014

Today we give our thanks, most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers — for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which we must seek every day to emulate. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them. Let us therefore proclaim our gratitude to Providence for manifold blessings — let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals — and let us resolve to share those blessings and those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout the world.

~ John F. Kennedy ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.

~ Bruce Lee ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

Here is a conclusion I’ve come to after many years: among all the errors we may have committed, the greatest of them all was that we believed that someone really knew something about socialism, or that someone actually knew how to build socialism. It seemed to be a sure fact, as well-known as the electrical system conceived by those who thought they were experts in electrical systems. Whenever they said: “That’s the formula”, we thought they knew.

~ Fidel Castro ~

• proposed by Kalki, in regard to his recent death.

2017

It is in silence, denial, evasion and suppression that danger really lies, not in open and free analysis and discussion … everywhere there seems to be a fear of reliance upon that ancient device so gloriously celebrated by John Milton three hundred years ago — the device of unlimited inquiry. Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity.

~ Charles A. Beard ~

• proposed by bystander

2018

We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... Cause there are so many sleeping people.

~ Jimi Hendrix ~

• proposed by Kalki

2019

Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

~ Bruce Lee ~

• proposed by Kalki

2020

The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose; Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart; If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease; While the deep meaning is misunderstood, it is useless to meditate on Rest.

~ Sengcan ~

• proposed by UDScott

2021

Have you ever been experienced? Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.

~ Jimi Hendrix ~

• proposed by Kalki

2022

First when there's nothing But a slow glowing dream That your fear seems to hide Deep inside your mind All alone I have cried Silent tears full of pride In a world made of steel Made of stone Well, I hear the music Close my eyes, feel the rhythm Wrap around Take a hold of my heart What a feeling Bein's believin' I can have it all Now I'm dancing for my life

~ Irene Cara ~

• proposed by Kalki; in regard of her recent death.

2023

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

~ Bruce Lee ~

• proposed by Kalki

2024

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

~ Bruce Lee ~

• proposed by Kalki

2025

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I'm not a master, I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning, So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word master, I consider the master as such when they close the casket. ~ Bruce Lee

• 3 Kalki 20:38, 26 November 2005 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4, if sourced, but I have as yet found no definite source for this.
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:28, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
• 3 because one is always learning until one's final breath. Zarbon 07:00, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Lyle 15:31, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself; do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. ~Bruce Lee

• 3 Lyle 15:31, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 04:27, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 15:24, 23 November 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

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Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat — to learn to die — is to be liberated from it. ~ Bruce Lee

• 3 Lyle 15:31, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 04:27, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 15:24, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

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I want to do everything in the world that can be done. ~ Fanny Kemble

• 2 Zarbon 04:17, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 15:24, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 21:55, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

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What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
~ Fanny Kemble

• 2 Zarbon 04:17, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 15:24, 23 November 2008 (UTC) though I might rank it at 3 eventually

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A sacred burden is this life ye bear:
Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly,
Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly.
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin,
But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.
~ Fanny Kemble

• 3 Zarbon 04:17, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 15:24, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

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I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. ~ Jimi Hendrix

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:38, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

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The Moment is freedom. — I couldn't live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them. ~ Bruce Lee

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:07, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

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When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body! ~ Bruce Lee

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:07, 26 November 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

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Thanksgiving provides a formal context in which to consider the instances of kindness that have enlightened our lives, for moments of grace that have gotten us through when all seemed lost. These are fine and sentimental subjects for contemplation. ~ Jon Carroll

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I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low on the horizon) and though some future fear may strut brave darkness as you approach, the thing itself will be but a speck when seen from beyond. Oh that He would restore us often with that 'aspect from beyond,' to see a thing as He sees it, to remember that He dealeth with us as with sons. ~ Jim Elliot

Or

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. ~ Victor Hugo

• 4 Suggest any one of above for Thanksgiving on 27 November 2014--Nvvchar (talk) 19:51, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
• 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:11, 26 November 2014 (UTC) I considered using the first one, but ended up looking for more and prefer the quote by JFK I found, for this year.

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