„Every society is three meals away from chaos“
— Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924
„Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.“
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„When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.“
— Karen Blixen Danish writer 1885 - 1962
Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass
„Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back, but you will find good use for your technical abilities on the voyage. Reply at once.'
Next day the following telegram arrived from Torstein:
COMING. TORSTEIN.“
— Thor Heyerdahl Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer 1914 - 2002
„For every dark night, there's a brighter day.“
— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996
„Do one thing every day that scares you.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
„If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.“
— Fernando Pessoa Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher 1888 - 1935
Poems of Fernando Pessoa
„My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn’t live much longer.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian-British philosopher 1889 - 1951
Letters to Russell, Keynes and Moore
„The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment..
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— W.E.B. Du Bois American sociologist, historian, activist and writer 1868 - 1963
Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays
„Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.“
— Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973
„Each of us has been made “a little lower than the angels.” What an incomprehensible compliment! But it’s not only a compliment; it’s also a responsibility, for our special status equalizes us with other people in the eyes of God. The Lord has exalted not only me or some special group; God has exalted everyone. It’s the people of Burkina Faso and Niger and Guyana and Haiti. It’s people who never learned to read and write or who live on fifty cents a day. All human beings have been made a little lower than the angels, and we have a responsibility to treat them accordingly.“
— Jimmy Carter American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981) 1924
Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President
„Every day I discover
more and more
beautiful things.
It’s enough to drive one mad.
I have such a desire
to do everything,
my head is bursting with it.“
— Claude Monet French impressionist painter 1840 - 1926
„People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.“
— Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
„The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?“
— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981
„Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, I got on my knees and told her that I was going to marry her some day. We were both married to someone else at the time. ‘Ring Of Fire’—June and Merle Kilgore wrote that song for me-that’s the way our love affair was. We fell madly in love and we worked together all the time, toured together all the time, and when the tour was over we both had to go home to other people. It hurt.“
— Johnny Cash American singer-songwriter 1932 - 2003