May 31

May 31 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ~ Maya Angelou
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * When there are no more memories of heroes and martyrs, And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth, Then only shall liberty or the idea of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth, And the infidel come into full possession. ~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass (born 31 May 1819)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * I am for those that have never been master'd, For men and women whose tempers have never been master'd, For those whom laws, theories, conventions, can never master. ~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass (born 31 May 1819)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles ... To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle... ~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Be composed — be at ease with me — I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you. ~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Talk not so much … of the great old masters, who but painted and chisell’d. Study not only their productions. There is a still higher school for him who would kindle his fire with coal from the altar of the loftiest and purest art. It is the school of all grand actions and grand virtues, of heroism, of the death of patriots and martyrs — of all the mighty deeds written in the pages of history — deeds of daring, and enthusiasm, devotion, and fortitude. ~ Walt Whitman
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess. … I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty. ~ Walt Whitman
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * It is time to explain myself — let us stand up. What is known I strip away, I launch all men and women forward with me into the Unknown. The clock indicates the moment — but what does eternity indicate? ~Walt Whitman ~ in Song of Myself
 * proposed by Kalki

Magnifying and applying come I, Outbidding at the start the old cautious hucksters, Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah, Lithographing Kronos, Zeus his son, and Hercules his grandson, Buying drafts of Osiris, Isis, Belus, Brahma, Buddha, In my portfolio placing Manito loose, Allah on a leaf, the crucifix engraved, With Odin and the hideous-faced Mexitli and every idol and image, Taking them all for what they are worth and not a cent more, Admitting they were alive and did the work of their days, (They bore mites as for unfledg'd birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,) Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself, bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see… ~ Walt Whitman ~ in Song of Myself
 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


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 * 2014


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 * 2015


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 * 2016


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 * 2017


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 * 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 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I never look a gift horse in the mouth, but I am not averse to looking an organisation in the motive. ~ Fred Allen, an American comedian (born 31 May, 1956)


 * 2 Kalki 17:44, 30 May 2007 (UTC) I must confess that there is not likely to be anyone I would favor more than Whitman on his birthday than there is anyone I would favor more than William Shakespeare on his.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:40, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:47, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. ~ Fred Allen
 * 2 Kalki 17:44, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:40, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:47, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Lyle 13:16, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, The Power Of Positive Thinking (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:45, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:45, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:45, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:45, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:45, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:45, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 06:29, 30 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 31 May 2023 (UTC)


 * 4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 31 May 2023 (UTC)


 * This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. ~ Walt Whitman
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 10:02, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * 4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:59, 29 May 2024 (UTC)