Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred
times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the
hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the
last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
-Jacob A. Riis
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome
danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm
inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is
meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there
is always tomorrow.
- Dorothy Thompson
danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm
inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is
meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there
is always tomorrow.
- Dorothy Thompson
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
The wind and rain outdoors play the most magical instruments. Anything
they touch becomes a small echo. Anything they pass, becomes a small
note. A cup of tea in left hand, a sketching pen in right one. Light
is disappearing, candle flame dances inside shadows. These gray days
the color of sleep.
-Anna Emilia
they touch becomes a small echo. Anything they pass, becomes a small
note. A cup of tea in left hand, a sketching pen in right one. Light
is disappearing, candle flame dances inside shadows. These gray days
the color of sleep.
-Anna Emilia
All my life I have longed to be alone in a place like this. Even when
everything was going well, as it often did. I can say that much. That
it often did. I have been lucky. But even then, for instance in the
middle of an embrace and someone whispering words in my ear I wanted
to hear, I could suddenly get a longing to be in a place where there
was only silence. Years might go by and I did not think about it, but
that does not mean that I did not long to be there. And now I am here,
and it is almost exactly as I had imagined it.
-Per Petterson
everything was going well, as it often did. I can say that much. That
it often did. I have been lucky. But even then, for instance in the
middle of an embrace and someone whispering words in my ear I wanted
to hear, I could suddenly get a longing to be in a place where there
was only silence. Years might go by and I did not think about it, but
that does not mean that I did not long to be there. And now I am here,
and it is almost exactly as I had imagined it.
-Per Petterson
Friday, September 23, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is
that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness
that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are
a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is
nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel
insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We
were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's
not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light
shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically
liberates others.
-Marianne Williamson
that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness
that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are
a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is
nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel
insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We
were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's
not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light
shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically
liberates others.
-Marianne Williamson
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live,
mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn,
burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across
the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and
everybody goes "Awww!
-Jack Kerouac
mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn,
burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across
the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and
everybody goes "Awww!
-Jack Kerouac
Saturday, April 30, 2011
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite,
something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to
find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more
eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby
when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the
sun shining on its cradle.
-Vincent van Gogh
something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to
find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more
eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby
when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the
sun shining on its cradle.
-Vincent van Gogh
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Jo March: I find it poor logic to say that because women are good,
women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote
because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are
angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and
citizens of this country.
Mr. Mayer: You should have been a lawyer, Miss March.
Jo March: I should have been a great many things, Mr. Mayer.
I should have been a great many things.
-from Little Women
women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote
because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are
angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and
citizens of this country.
Mr. Mayer: You should have been a lawyer, Miss March.
Jo March: I should have been a great many things, Mr. Mayer.
I should have been a great many things.
-from Little Women
Monday, April 18, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat,
writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his
garden or looking for dinosaur eggs in the gobi desert.
He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button
that has rolled under the radiator.
He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself.
He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living
life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.
-W. Beran Wolfe
writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his
garden or looking for dinosaur eggs in the gobi desert.
He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button
that has rolled under the radiator.
He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself.
He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living
life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.
-W. Beran Wolfe
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Monday, January 10, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
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