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Quote of the Day

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“How can you tell whether or not you have had enough until you’ve had a little too much?” — Jessamyn West, Hide and Seek

Author YahooeyPosted on July 19, 2022July 17, 2022Categories QuotationsTags enough, Jessamyn West7 Comments on Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

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“You’re not called on to like everything in this world. Nor to speak up about all you don’t like.” — Jessamyn West, The Witch Diggers

Author YahooeyPosted on May 5, 2022May 4, 2022Categories QuotationsTags Jessamyn West, opnionsLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

Quote on a picture of winter scene with ducks and geese.

“Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death aboveground.” — Jessamyn West, The Life I Really Lived

Author YahooeyPosted on February 9, 2022February 8, 2022Categories QuotationsTags faithfulness to the past, Jessamyn WestLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

Quote on a picture of Prague.

“The words a man speaks are always more comforting than the words he hears.” — Jessamyn West, The Massacre at Fall Creek

Author YahooeyPosted on January 1, 2022December 29, 2021Categories QuotationsTags heard, Jessamyn West, listen, said, wordsLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Quote on a picture of Capitola.

“The tragedy of our time is not that we are so eye centered, so appearance besotted. The tragedy is that we do not know what we like until we are told by our advertisers and entertainers.” — Jessamyn West, Love Is Not What You Think

Author YahooeyPosted on November 17, 2021November 16, 2021Categories QuotationsTags appearances, Jessamyn WestLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

Quote on a picture of a winter scene with ducks, geese and pigeons in Hyde Park.

“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor—for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.” — Jessamyn West, To See the Dream

Author YahooeyPosted on October 2, 2021October 1, 2021Categories QuotationsTags irony, Jessamyn West, sense of humor, sense of humourLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

Quote on a picture of Prague.

“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed our own.” — Jessamyn West, To See the Dream

Author YahooeyPosted on August 10, 2021August 10, 2021Categories QuotationsTags forgiveness, Jessamyn West, self-forgivenessLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

“We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?” — Jessamyn West, To See the Dream

Author YahooeyPosted on July 18, 2013June 15, 2017Categories QuotationsTags hypocrisy, Jessamyn West, To See the DreamLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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