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Quote o’ the Month – September….2015

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
~ Vaclav Havel; czech writer, philosopher and statesman.

Quote o’ the Month – August….2015

“I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
~ Robert Anson Heinlein; american science fiction author.

Quote o’ the Month – July….2015

“It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men have come to receive the energy which they must have to live, should be made up of a tissue of illusions.”
~ David Emile Durkheim; french sociologist, social psychologist and philosopher.

Quote o’ the Month – June….2015

“True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.”
~ Ronald David Laing; scottish psychiatrist.

Quote o’ the Month – May….2015

“The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.”
~ David Cronenberg; canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor.

Quote o’ the Month – April….2015

“Poets are like proverbs, you can always find one to contradict another.”
~ Jules Verne; french novelist, poet and playwright.

Quote o’ the Month – March….2015

“Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off.”
~ Luis Bunuel; spanish-mexican filmmaker, artist and iconoclastic revolutionary of Surrealism.

Quote o’ the Month – February….2015

“The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.”
~ Mary Wollstonecraft; british author, philosopher and women’s rights advocate.

Quote o’ the Month – January….2015

“Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.”
~ Lillian Hellman; american dramatist and screenwriter.

Quote o’ the Month – December….2014

“All relationships change the brain – but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.”

~ Diane Ackerman; american author, poet and naturalist.