April 8

April 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. ~ Zhuang Zi
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. ~ Gautama Buddha
 * selected by Kalki; 8 April is Hana Matsuri (Flower Festival), the fixed-date celebration of Buddha's Birthday in Japan.


 * 2006
 * Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule. ~ Gautama Buddha
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Blessed are the poor in spirit:   for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn:    for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek:    for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:    for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful:    for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart:    for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers:    for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake:    for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) ~ (for Easter Sunday 2007 in both the Gregorian calendar and Eastern Orthodox reckonings)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Look, look, look to the rainbow Follow it over the hill and stream Look, look, look to the rainbow Follow the fellow who follows a dream. ~ Yip Harburg ~ (born 8 April 1896)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Somewhere over the rainbow Skies are blue And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come true. ~ Yip Harburg ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done. ~ Kofi Annan (born 8 April 1938)
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2011
 * Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change. Till there came a time in the law of life When o’er the nursing sod, The shadows broke and soul awoke In a strange, dim dream of God. ~ Langdon Smith ~ (died 8 April 1908)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes. ~ Jesus
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki, in regard of his recent death.


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018 :


 * proposed by Jeff Q as a quote of Londo Mollari, Babylon 5, "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"; first broadcast 8 April 1996


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks regarding the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:


 * We have entered the third millennium through a gate of fire. If today, after the horror of 11 September, we see better, and we see further — we will realize that humanity is indivisible. New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered every mind, regardless of wealth or status. A deeper awareness of the bonds that bind us all — in pain as in prosperity — has gripped young and old. In the early beginnings of the 21st century — a century already violently disabused of any hopes that progress towards global peace and prosperity is inevitable — this new reality can no longer be ignored. It must be confronted. ~ Kofi Annan ~
 * used 11 September 2010, proposed by Kalki

Suggestions
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 2 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 2 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Glory—once achieved, what is it worth? ~ Emile Cioran
 * 4 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC) A rather simplistic and presumptive rhetorical question — the worth of any form of glory is in how it was obtained, among whom it is manifest, and how it is used.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? ~ Emile Cioran
 * 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC) All things matter to those with a profound sense of Eternity.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

One hardly saves a world without ruling it. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 2 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 3 and strong lean toward 4. Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC) but this needs context.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

The more we try to wrest ourselves from our ego, the deeper we sink into it. ~ Emile Cioran
 * 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3. I have corrected the misquote here and on the Cioran page by changing "rest" to "wrest" (confirmed by Google Book Search). - InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 20:52, 11 January 2015 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.


 * 4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:07, 7 April 2024 (UTC); in regard to the sun and the moon meeting above many invoked, evoked and evocative "yon hills" during the total eclipse of the sun on this date.