SENIOR SPRING SEMESTER JOURNAL QUOTES Guidelines: Copy the quote, author, and dates. Paraphrase the quote’s main point. Analyze it in a literary way. Does it include any literary device? Simile or metaphor? Irony or hyperbole? Look at its syntax. Is it a statement, question, command, or exclamation? Are any persuasive techniques used? Write at least 10 full lines. Be bold, creative, and clever.

January 30 and Feb. 2 #8 “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss ( )

February 1 #9 Choose one of the following quotes. “There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.” OR “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me lay an invincible summer.” »Albert Camus »( )

March 7 and 8 #10 “Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” »Norman Cousins »( )

January 23 and 24 #6 “Memory is man’s greatest friend and worst enemy.” Gilbert Parker ( )

January 25 and 26 # 7 “ There is but one truly philosophical problem and that is suicide.” Albert Camus ( )

January 17 and 18 “Men, for years now have been talking about war and peace. But, now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer between violence and nonviolence in this world; it’s nonviolence or nonexistence.” »Martin Luther King, Jr. ( )

January 17, 2012 “Let us be dissatisfied until from every city hall, justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Martin Luther King, Jr. ( ) 0

January 19 and 20 #4 “Frailty, thy name is woman!” »William Shakespeare –( )

January 5 & 6 #1 “Carpe diem!” (Seize the day!) »Horace »(55-8 B.C.)

January 9 and 10 #2 “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” »Soren Kierkegaard »( )

January 11 and 12 #3 “Wabi-sabi” Japenese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature.

January 19 and 20 #5 “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” Henry David Thoreau ( )