QUOTE A DAY - May 28, 2015

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*---- Quote For The Day ----*
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
--George Bernard Shaw

The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility.
--Mary Anne Radmacher

Truth always rests with the minority... because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion.
--Soren Kiergegaard


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
I do not intend to beat them... I will force them to beat me. Thus I actually compel them. For if they begin to beat me, they will probably pay attention; and if they kill me, they most definitely will pay attention, and I shall have won an absolute victory.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
Being too busy has this result: that an individual very, very rarely is permitted to form a heart; on the other hand, the thinker, the poet, or the religious personality who actually has formed his heart, will never be popular, not because he is difficult, but because it demands quiet and prolonged working with oneself and intimate knowledge of oneself as well as a certain isolation.
--Soren Kiergegaard

When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen: There will be something solid for you to stand upon, or, you will be taught how to fly
--Patrick Overton - from his book of poems: The Leaning Tree, 1975
[Widely misattributed to Barbara J. Winter, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, and others]

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else, you surrender your own integrity [and] become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
--Eleanor Roosevelt


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

I do not intend to beat them... I will force them to beat me. Thus I actually compel them. For if they begin to beat me, they will probably pay attention; and if they kill me, they most definitely will pay attention, and I shall have won an absolute victory.

ANSWER: Soren Kiergegaard

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