May 15

May 15 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. ~ Louis Pasteur
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams — day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing — are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. ~ L. Frank Baum (born 15 May 1856)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * The voice of the individual artist may seem perhaps of no more consequence than the whirring of a cricket in the grass, but the arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchanged in all that matters through times of interruption, diminishment, neglect; they outlive governments and creeds and the societies, even the very civilization that produced them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent the substance of faith and the only reality. They are what we find again when the ruins are cleared away. ~ Katherine Anne Porter (born 15 May 1890)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist — the only thing he's good for — is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. Even if it's only his view of a meaning. That's what he's for — to give his view of life. ~ Katherine Anne Porter
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory. ~ Irena Sendler (recent death)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2009
 * The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own — even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. ~ Katherine Anne Porter
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward. ~ L. Frank Baum
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own. ~ Katherine Anne Porter
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2012
 * To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content. ~ L. Frank Baum
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


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 * 2014


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 * 2015


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 * 2016


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 * 2017
 * proposed by Kalki; opening lyrics to the song of this year's Eurovision contest winner, her song "Amar pelos dois ", as sung by her brother Salvador Sobral.


 * 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 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others. ~ Cesare Pavese


 * 3 because incommunicability is one of Pavese's main themes. Nemo 14:05, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 09:07, 14 May 2015 (UTC) 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC) but with a lean toward 3, which is what I would likely rank it on date more clearly associated with the author, such as his birthday of 9 September.

Now we can cross the Shifting Sands. ~ L. Frank Baum
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 1, I don't get this one. dibbydib ⌐■_■ ( barate me ) 10:17, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * "The Shifting Sands" were one of the barriers surrounding the land of Oz, and these were his last words, to his wife. ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:08, 14 May 2020 (UTC)


 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 11:30, 3 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Thou silver deity of secret night, Direct my footsteps through the woodland shade; Thou conscious witness of unknown delight, The Lover’s guardian, and the Muse’s aid! ~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (birthday)
 * 4 Ficaia (talk) 08:25, 3 May 2024 (UTC)


 * That you’re in a terrible taking, By all these sweet oglings I see, But the fruit that can fall without shaking,  Indeed is too mellow for me. ~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (birthday)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 11:30, 3 May 2024 (UTC)


 * In the Valley of Shanganagh, where the songs of skylarks teem, And the rose perfumes the ocean-breeze, as love the hero's dream, 'Twas there I wooed my Maggie. In her dark eyes there did dwell A secret that the billows knew, but yet could never tell. ~ John Martley
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 03:05, 12 June 2024 (UTC)


 * In the Valley of Shanganagh, where the sullen seagulls gleam, And the pine-scent fills the sighing breeze as death the lover's dream, 'Twas there I lost my Maggie. Why that fate upon us fell The powers above us knew, perhaps, if only they would tell. ~ John Martley
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 03:14, 12 June 2024 (UTC)