April 2

April 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on. ~ Robert Frost
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye. ~ Marvin Gaye (born 2 April 1939)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess. ~ Giacomo Casanova (born 2 April 1725)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. ~ Kenneth Tynan
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Forgiveness is the offspring of a feeling of heroism, of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness, and still oftener of a natural desire for calm and quietness. Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. ~ Giacomo Casanova
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it. ~ Émile Zola (born 2 April 1840)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * My spirit to yours dear brother, Do not mind because many sounding your name do not understand you, I do not sound your name, but I understand you, I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to come also, That we all labor together transmitting the same charge and succession, We few equals indifferent of lands, indifferent of times, We, enclosers of all continents, all castes, allowers of all theologies, Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men, We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that is asserted, We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side, They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade, Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras, Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are. ~ Walt Whitman in "To Him Who Was Crucified" in Leaves of Grass (for Good Friday 2010, in both Western and Eastern Orthodox calculations)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it. It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. ~ Giacomo Casanova
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2012
 * We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised. ~ Giacomo Casanova
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2015


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki, for the Good Friday on this date in 2010, and used for the Good Friday of 2021.


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. ~ Joan Vinge (born April 2)
 * 3 and strong lean toward 4. Zarbon 06:31, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Source: "What's Your Mood?: A Good Day, Bad Day, In-between Day Book" - by Kimberly Potts - Psychology - 2005
 * 1 Kalki 02:17, 29 March 2009 (UTC) Indifference is not a force at all — it is the base out of which Life and all Love and Hate emerge, and with Love ultimately the victor in all that endures with Life. ~ Kalki 02:17, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements. ~ Camille Paglia
 * 2 Zarbon 05:32, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 06:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC) I might rank this a 2 or more with some context, but it doesn't seem to have much of a point as it stands.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:15, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. ~ Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen
 * 2 Zarbon 05:32, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 06:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:15, 1 April 2009 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 20:32, 24 April 2013 (UTC)


 * 3 Lisa (talk) 07:44, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:07, 2 April 2023 (UTC); with a lean toward 3 — but I cannot yet find a citation of the original source of this, and the earliest attribution to Zola I have yet located dates to a snippet in Kenya Education Journal Vol. 1 (1958).