June 21

June 21 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Life has no meaning a priori...It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre (born 21 June 1905)
 * proposed by MosheZadka


 * 2006
 * Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. ~ Mary McCarthy (born 21 June 1912)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling… ~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass (Solstice date 2007)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * proposed by Kalki

to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.'' ~ Reinhold Niebuhr ~ (born 21 June 1892)
 * 2009
 * ''God grant me the serenity
 * proposed by Ningauble


 * 2010
 * There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. … To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; therefore, we are saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * proposed by Ningauble
 * proposed by Ningauble


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Ningauble


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


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


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
This date is usually that of the Summer solstice for most locations in the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter solstice in the Southern, and thus quotes on the sun, summer, the seasons or solstices are invited.

If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision", you immediately understand that he is going to do something bad. ~ Mary McCarthy
 * 2 Kalki 19:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:58, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

To be disesteemed by people you don’t have much respect for is not the worst fate. ~ Mary McCarthy
 * 2 Kalki 19:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:58, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 10:44, 30 May 2011 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.

It were better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be Condemned. ~ Increase Mather
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 04:38, 26 October 2012 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:00, 20 June 2015 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:00, 20 June 2015 (UTC)


 * 3 --ΞΔΞ (talk) 06:23, 30 June 2019 (UTC)