For this Day:

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Regular....Original

Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work. 
-Gustave Flaubert, novelist (1821-1880)

God is..

If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to him. 
-Rebecca West, author and journalist (1892-1983)

Gets better by

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."
- Jim Rohn

2 kinds of light

There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. 
-James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)

Live life

I want to live my life, not record it.
- Jackie Kennedy

That is...

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. 
-Willa Cather, novelist (1873-1947)

True friends...

Stabs you in the front...

to put happiness

The most worthwhile thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
- Robert Bsden-Powell

lovely as a tree

I think that I shall never see /
 A poem lovely as a tree. 
-(Alfred) Joyce Kilmer, journalist and poet (1886-1918)

Painting of thoughts

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
- Blaise Pascal

Simple Smile

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa

Patriotism

Oscar Wilde

Starts with One

"You see, it always starts with one. And like a domino effect, it impacts one after the other." 
- Tony Robins

to disturb or not

The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. 
-Ann Patchett, writer (b. 2 Dec 1963)

not any more...

I like talking about things that are taboo because it makes them not taboo anymore. 
-Sarah Silverman, comedian (b. 1 Dec 1970)

wise by chance?

No man was ever wise by chance.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Clay and Play

A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment's life -- that's me.
 -Harivansh Rai Bachchan, poet (1907-2003)

...as it is!

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. 
-William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827)

Condemned to repeat

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayan