January 28

January 28 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2005
 * Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise. The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is. The Tao nourishes by not forcing. By not dominating, the Master leads. ~ Lao Zi ~
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ~ Colette (born 28 January 1873)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself. ~ José Martí
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * For the sincere friend Who gives me his frank hand. And for the cruel man who pulls out of me the heart with which I live, I grow neither nettles nor thorns: I grow a white rose. ~ José Martí ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. ~ Colette (born 28 January 1873)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2010
 * Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate. ~ José Martí
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave. ~ Colette
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2012
 * By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet. ~ Colette
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


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 * 2015


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 * 2016


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 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki in regard to the Chinese New Year — of the Fire Rooster.


 * 2018


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 * 2019


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 * 2020


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 * 2021


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 * 2022


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 * 2023


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 * 2024


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 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. ~ José Martí (born January 28, 1853)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 12:18, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 19:15, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 27 January 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. ~ Colette
 * 3 ♞☮♌︎Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:23, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. ~ Colette
 * 3 ♞☮♌︎Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:23, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

We only do well the things we like doing. ~ Colette
 * 3 ♞☮♌︎Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:23, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Total absence of humor renders life impossible. ~ Colette
 * 3 ♞☮♌︎Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:23, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. ~ Colette
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:01, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
 * (25 January 2016)