Quote for Today: Hunter S. Thompson
© Thomas Castelazo with CCLicense Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Mark Mittelberg
Public Domain Image via Pixabay It’s common in the middle of a drought . . . to forget that rain is the norm. Or in the middle of a flood to forget that floods rarely happen. –Mark Mittelberg
View ArticleQuote for Today: John Cusack
Public Domain Image via Pixabay Well, anything that’s interesting in a film, or in a character –all your passion, your sex, your anger, your rage, all that– comes from that part of you that you want to...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Mary Anne Radmacher
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. ―Mary Anne Radmacher Public Domain Image via Pixabay
View ArticleQuote for Today: Henry Beston
Stars Above Haleakala© thedaintyheart with CCLicense Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Paulo Coelho
Ester asked why people are sad. “That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Natalie Goldberg
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. …This is...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Friedrich Nietzsche
© Tiia Monto with CCLicense The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. ―Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
View ArticleQuote for Today: Lewis Carroll
Trees cocooned by spider webs after flooding in Sindh, Pakistan, 2010© DFID, The UK Department for International Development with CCLicense “I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jennifer Donnelly
Craig Knowles, The Diving Belle, Vincent Pier, Scarborough, UKImage © JThomas with CCLicense Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get–a cold sick feeling, deep down inside–when...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Lionel Richie
I did decide to write about what I experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top. You know what was there? Nothing. Not one thing. What was at the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Leonora Carrington
© Jubair1985 with CCLicense We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves. —Leonora Carrington
View ArticleQuote for Today: Gordon Hempton
Sunset on the Dunes, Great Sand Dunes National Park © Katherine McDaniel, 2015 Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything . . . It is the presence of time, undisturbed....
View ArticleQuote for Today: Henry Miller
Brooklyn Bridge © Postdlf with CCLicense Here there is buried legend after legend of youth and melancholy, of savage nights and mysterious bosoms dancing on the wet mirror of the pavement, of women...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jennifer DeLucy
It makes me sad that so many people feel they’re only allowed to show their best face, while their humanity and vulnerabilities are forbidden and hidden. How else do we connect, but by commonality,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Stig Åvall Severinsen
It is impossible to express the experiences you have below the surface with words, when water gently caresses your face and body, the pulse decreases and your brain relaxes. You are immediately cut...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Haruki Murakami
For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I’m having, too, are all first-time feelings. If it were something I’d experienced before, then I’d...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Patrick Ness
Ah, well, then you’ve never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it’s beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Anaïs Nin
It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Michael Meade
The only choice once your world has been torn apart is to find your genius and live with that. ‘Normal’ is out of the question. The healing for veterans, or anyone going through great tragedy, is...
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