November 27

November 27 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank You', that would suffice. ~ Meister Eckhart
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2004
 * I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. ~ Elbert Hubbard
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Put every great teacher together in a room, and they'd agree about everything, put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything. ~ Bruce Lee
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it. ~ Bruce Lee
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. ~ Bruce Lee
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there. ~ Bruce Lee
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and NOTHING is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing. OPEN yourelf and flow, my friend. Flow in the TOTAL OPENESS OF THE LIVING MOMENT. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. ~ Bruce Lee
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself. ~ Bruce Lee
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Acting funny, but I don't know why, 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky. ~ Jimi Hendrix
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2013


 * proposed by UDScott


 * 2014
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


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


 * 2017


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by UDScott


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


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


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I'm not a master, I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning, So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word master, I consider the master as such when they close the casket. ~ Bruce Lee
 * 3 Kalki 20:38, 26 November 2005 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4, if sourced, but I have as yet found no definite source for this.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:28, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 because one is always learning until one's final breath. Zarbon 07:00, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Lyle 15:31, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself; do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. ~Bruce Lee
 * 3 Lyle 15:31, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:27, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:24, 23 November 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat — to learn to die — is to be liberated from it. ~ Bruce Lee
 * 3 Lyle 15:31, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:27, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:24, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I want to do everything in the world that can be done. ~ Fanny Kemble
 * 2 Zarbon 04:17, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:24, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:55, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace? ~ Fanny Kemble
 * 2 Zarbon 04:17, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:24, 23 November 2008 (UTC) though I might rank it at 3 eventually

A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly. Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win. ~ Fanny Kemble
 * 3 Zarbon 04:17, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:24, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. ~ Jimi Hendrix
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 05:38, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. ~ Bruce Lee
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 19:07, 26 November 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The Moment is freedom. — I couldn't live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them. ~ Bruce Lee
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 19:07, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body! ~ Bruce Lee
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 19:07, 26 November 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Thanksgiving provides a formal context in which to consider the instances of kindness that have enlightened our lives, for moments of grace that have gotten us through when all seemed lost. These are fine and sentimental subjects for contemplation. ~ Jon Carroll

Or

I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low on the horizon) and though some future fear may strut brave darkness as you approach, the thing itself will be but a speck when seen from beyond. Oh that He would restore us often with that 'aspect from beyond,' to see a thing as He sees it, to remember that He dealeth with us as with sons. ~ Jim Elliot

Or

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. ~ Victor Hugo


 * 4 Suggest any one of above for Thanksgiving on 27 November 2014--Nvvchar (talk) 19:51, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:11, 26 November 2014 (UTC) I considered using the first one, but ended up looking for more and prefer the quote by JFK I found, for this year.