September 30

September 30 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed. ~ William Blake
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~ Helen Schucman
 * proposed by Kalki, and used on this date, because this had become attributed to Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (born 30 September 1207); the attribution was later corrected on 2007·09·30.


 * 2006
 * Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other. ~ Elie Wiesel (born 30 September 1928)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. ~ Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it. ~ Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * Reason is like an officer when the King appears; The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun. ~ Rumi ~
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2010
 * Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through, and be silent. ~ Rumi ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * There is a certain cloud, impregnated with a thousand lightnings. There is my body — in it an ocean formed of His glory. All the creation, All the universes, All the galaxies, Are lost in it. ~ Rumi ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2020


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


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


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:


 * Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. ~ Elie Wiesel
 * used 27 August 2004,


 * When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. ~ Elie Wiesel
 * used 26 November 2004


 * The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. ~ Elie Wiesel


 * used 10 December 2006

Suggestions
The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize. ~ Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 23:58, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:58, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 23:31, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away. ~ Shintaro Ishihara (date of birth)
 * 3 LordAmeth 18:41, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 07:58, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 23:31, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 19:29, 29 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 2 — most parties are thrown away anyway, when that is clearly the case; others survive only in name and mutate in aim because people find their familiar names useful.

The great victories are never won in the first blow. ~ Johan Falkberget
 * 4 Zarbon 05:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:39, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 19:29, 29 September 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 23:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC) I cannot find an actual published source for this, in either the provided English or Norwegian forms, and until one is found I don't think it should be acceptable as a QOTD.

I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career... I could not suppose that my country would change, and I would. ~ Aleksandr Vasilevsky
 * 3 Zarbon 05:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:39, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC) but would extend this to:
 * I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career. I still wanted to be an agronomist and work in some remote corner of Russia after the war. I could not suppose that my country would change, and I would.

God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting. ~ William Stoughton
 * 2 Zarbon 05:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:39, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life? ~ Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
 * 3 Zarbon 05:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:39, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

''Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy.'' ~ Rumi ~
 * 3 Kalki 19:29, 29 September 2009 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 05:01, 17 July 2022 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 05:01, 17 July 2022 (UTC)