June 29

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. ~ Karl Kraus
  • selected by Kalki
2005
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (born 29 June 1900)
  • proposed by MosheZadka
2006
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • proposed by Kalki
2007
"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • proposed by Kalki
2008
Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • proposed by Kalki
2009
What makes the desert beautiful … is that somewhere it hides a well. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince
  • proposed by Kalki
2010

What though our eyes with tears be wet?
The sunrise never failed us yet.

The blush of dawn may yet restore
Our light and hope and joy once more.
Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget
That sunrise never failed us yet!

~ Celia Thaxter ~

  • proposed by Zarbon
2011

The heart of God through his creation stirs,
We thrill to feel it, trembling as the flowers
That die to live again, — his messengers,
To keep faith firm in these sad souls of ours.

The waves of Time may devastate our lives,
The frosts of age may check our failing breath,
They shall not touch the spirit that survives
Triumphant over doubt and pain and death.

~ Celia Thaxter ~

  • proposed by Kalki
2012
It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2013
To be a man is to be responsible: to be ashamed of miseries you did not cause; to be proud of your comrades' victories; to be aware, when setting one stone, that you are building a world.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2014
To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2015
Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruelest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2016
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2017
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. These prison walls that this age of trade has built up round us, we can break down. We can still run free, call to our comrades, and marvel to hear once more, in response to our call, the impassioned chant of the human voice.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2018
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2019
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2020
Thou great Creator! Pardon us who reach
For other heaven beyond this world of thine,
This matchless world, where thy least touch doth teach
Thy solemn lessons clearly, line on line.

And help us to be grateful, we who live
Such sordid, fretful lives of discontent,
Nor see the sunshine nor the flower, nor strive
To find the love thy bitter chastening meant.
~ Celia Thaxter ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2021
No man can draw a free breath who does not share with other men a common and disinterested ideal. Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through union in the same high effort.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2022
Our nation is preserved by those who abide by their oaths to our Constitution. Our nation is preserved by those who know the fundamental difference between right and wrong.
~ Liz Cheney ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2023
Already the dandelions
Are changed into vanishing ghosts.
~ Celia Thaxter ~
  • proposed by Zarbon
2024
Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself. Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight — and someone who lies through his teeth for his own benefit. Last night didn’t change that, and it’s why so much is at stake in November.
~ Barack Obama ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2025
Confuse not love with the ravings of possession, which bring the worst sufferings. For contrary to the general opinion, love does not cause suffering. But the instinct of ownership causes suffering, which is the contrary of love.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2026

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No man can draw a free breath who does not share with other men a common and disinterested ideal. Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through union in the same high effort.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
All of us, in words that contradict each other, express at bottom the same exalted impulse. What sets us against one another is not our aims — they all come to the same thing — but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
Every nation is selfish and every nation considers its selfishness sacred.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 29 June 2025 (UTC)


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