“Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.”
- Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

"The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them."
- Marilyn Monroe

"It was like we were speaking a language we'd once been fluent in, but we now had to struggle with verbs and tenses."
- Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

"Sadness is my luxury..."
- Wilco, "Born Alone"

"It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of someone else's life with perfection."
- The Bhadavad Gita

“I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde.”
- Dolly Parton

"It's very important to my parents that you know they actually drive a Subaru Outback and not this big SUV in real life."
- Abe

"A happy family is but an early heaven."
- George Bernard Shaw

"This place reminds me of Santa's workshop. Except it smells like mushrooms and everyone looks like they want to hurt me."
- Buddy, Elf

"I was never less alone than when by myself."
- Edward Gibbon

"It is never too late to give up your prejudices."
- Henry David Thoreau

"If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain."
- Oprah Winfrey

"Speaking of cookies….they have become the newest food group in my life.  A real staple.  No Sweet November has been made up for with Delicious Delights December."
- Lauren (via)

"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle."
- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Justice is what love looks like in public."
- Cornel West

"Karen and Sharon had been a couple at some unspecified time in the past but were now just friends with asymmetrical haircuts."
- Tina Fey, Bossypants

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."
- Rita Rudner

"Hope is the thing with feathers,
that perches in the soul,
and sings the tune without words,
and never stops at all."
- Emily Dickenson

"Determine to live life with flair and laughter."
- Maya Angelou

"The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted."
- Martha Graham

"I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity."
- Nadezhda Mandelstam

"Hell is full of musical amateurs."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us."
- Martin Luther

"It’s a job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish."
- J.R.R. Tolkein

"Citizenship means that we behave according to the belief that every person matters just as much as every other person.  Citizens must not prosper at the expense of another person.  Citizens should aspire to do what they can to counteract the disadvantages that random chance imposes on others."
- Bill Gates, Sr.  (via)

"Joy has no cost."
- Marianne Williamson

"I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
- Anna Quindlen

"I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it."
- Susan Butcher

"You all know the Bible is made of testaments old and new
You've been told it's just those two parts or only one if you're a Jew
But what if I were to tell you there's a fresh third part out there
Which was found by a hip new prophet who had a little Donny Osmond flair"
- "All-American Prophet," The Book of Mormon: The Musical

"For those called to seek the kingdom of God… the quest for peace is never optional."
- Joseph Lowery

"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers

"Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one."
- Congresswoman Bella Abzug

"Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with."
- Ellen DeGeneres

"I'll only ask once that you and your adorable sweater step away from the door."
- Nick, Youth in Revolt

"Life always was, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.  So, too, with God.  For God is what Life is.  So, too, with Love.  For love is what God is."
- Neale Donald Walsh

"Why does it always have to rain on Sunday?"
- Kim Richey, "Pretty Picture"

"Book lovers never go to bed alone."
- Anonymous

"Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live." - Jacqueline Winspear

"Family life is full of major and minor crises — the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce — and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It’s difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul."
- Thomas Moore

"My face had said too much
Before our hands could even touch
To greet a 'hello'
(So much for going slow...)"
- Carbon Leaf, "Life Less Ordinary"

"It's in the Bible. Look it up."
- Tara

"My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word 'farting.'"
- Tina Fey, Bossypants

"To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now."
- Donald Altman

"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."
- Oprah Winfrey

"Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle."
- Anna Quindlen

"Diagnosis actually means to look at all possibilities and allow what you see most to begin to reveal solutions.  So in and of itself, the art of medicine is the art of stepping back and asking questions."
- Cynthia Caillagh

"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home."
- Bill Cosby 

"I've made up my mind,
made it up as I went along."
- Grand Archives, "Orange Juice"

"Patience produces character, and character produces hope.  And this hope will never disappoint us."
- Romans 5:4-5

"I still close my eyes and go home -- I can always draw from that."
- Dolly Parton

“Call it 'womb awe' or even 'womb worship' but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence... It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world... Like men since the beginning of time I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life?”
- Sam Keen

"People don't realize this, but loneliness is underrated."
- Tom, (500) Days of Summer

"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
- Maya Angelou

"You are way more fun to spend time with than a group of recovering alcoholics and drug addicts."
- Claire

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.  Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great.  When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition, it is important with whom you regularly associate.  Hang out with friends who are likeminded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives.  Similarly, be that kind of friend for your friends."
- Mark Twain

"I throw my hands up in the air sometimes
Saying ayo
Gotta let go"
- Taio Cruz, "Dynamite"

"Hope has two beautiful daughters: anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to change them."
- Saint Augustine

"For it is the God who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."
- 2 Corinthians 4:6

"Be with those who help your being."
- Rumi

"Life is all about timing … The unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable becomes available, the unattainable …. attainable. Have the patience, wait it out. It’s all about timing."
- Stacey Charter

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little."
- Sydney Smith

"Growing old and I want to go home..."
- Nick Drake, "Black Eyed Dog"

"Slutty Halloween encourages laziness. A basque and a bowtie do not a costume maketh. Buying a pre-prepared 'raunchy traffic warden' outfit off the internet is a cop out. I like to see a fancy dress that blood, sweat and a few dedicated charity shop dashes have gone into, ta. If you've not cut up a bedsheet and permanently stained a few towels, you've frankly not tried hard enough."
- Lauren Bravo, "Slutty Halloween" (via)

"And no you don't wanna mess with us
Got Jesus on my necklace"
- Ke$ha, "We R Who We R"

"Happiness...it lies in the joy of achievement, the thrill of creative effort."
- Van Gogh

"If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart."
- James A. Garfield

"There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but — the content of the role itself — I find there are many roles."
- Anne Bancroft

"The hole and the patch should be commensurate."
- Thomas Jefferson

"In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself."
- Oprah Winfrey

"I'm really concerned about these nudist runners outside city hall..."
- Name witheld, amusing 10-minute voicemail at work

"And suppose that you lived
In that forest in France
Where the average young person
Just hasn't a chance
To escape from the perilous
Pants eating plants!"
- Dr. Seuss, Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

"There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and The Great Pumpkin."
- Linus, Peanuts

“Faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.”
- Book of Mormon, Ether 12:6

"Hope is patiently waiting expectantly for the intangible to become reality."
- Avery D. Miller

“Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.”
- William MacNeile Dixon

"If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men.  Why not write about it truthfully?"
- Virginia Woolf

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
- Lao Tzu

"Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile."
- William Cullen Bryant

"When it's cold and wet outside, suddenly, the inside of my house is much, much cozier.  There's a reason to stay inside.  There's a reason to go to the basement and watch a movie, or read a book by a fire in the living room.  When thinking of wet, cold, or snowy weather, my instant physical sensation is: relief."
- Julia Sweeney (via)

"At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done."
- Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

"There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship."
- Iris Murdoch

"This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change."
- Meryl Streep 

"The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?"
- Dorothy Day, Loaves and Fishes

"Blessed are those who trust in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord."
- Jeremiah, 17:7

"As good as I am, I’m nothing without my band."
- Steven Tyler

“My reasons for giving have to do with a personal commitment to the notion of community, to my belief in supporting worthy causes, and to my philosophy of service. Though my salary has never been substantial, I recognize that I have been extraordinarily lucky. Much of that luck has little or nothing to do with me personally – my parents made sure I got a good education, and I was fortunate to be born with basic intelligence and a fair bit of ambition. There have been obstacles, of course, but overall I feel I am indebted to society which has been so good to me. Not everyone has had the advantages that I have had, and if I can share some of mine with my community, it is a small step towards a better world.”
- 2011 Cygnus Donor Survey respondent

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
- Pablo Picasso

"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."  
- Seamus Heaney

"I love bread. Mainly because, it serves as an excellent vehicle for eating other things while still appearing socially acceptable. Like butter, cheese, sugar (cinnamon toast, duh), syrup, jam, peanut butter, and Nutella."
- Ramsay

"Don't really know how I got here
I got some pictures on my phone"
- OneRepublic, "Good Life"

"For you shall go out in joy, and be led back in peace, the mountains and the hills before you shall burst into song, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands."
- Isaiah 55:12

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
- Erich Fromm

"Babies are such a nice way to start people."
- Don Herold

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we’ve got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition — and then admit that we just don’t want to do it."
- Stephen Colbert

"To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle."
- George Orwell

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
- Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride

"Think I'm done gunnin' for some imagined bliss--
just gotta knuckle down and be ok with this."
- Ani Difranco, "Knuckle Down"

"The main thing is to pay attention, pay clear attention to everything you see.  Notice what no one else notices, and you'll know what no one else knows."
- Loris Harrow  

“If you don’t find it in the index, look very carefully throughout the entire catalog.”
- Sears-Roebuck catalog

"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul."
- Dorothy Day

"So I just put on a jacket that I haven't worn since last fall, and I put my hands in the pockets and pulled out a Welch's fruit snacks wrapper.  All you, baby."
- Laura

"Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me--so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins."
Audre Lorde

"Miniature disasters and minor catastrophoes
Bring me to my knees
Well I must be my own master
Or a miniature disaster will be
It will be the death of me"
- KT Tunstall, "Miniature Disasters"

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."
- Lin Yutang

"God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back."
- Gloria Steinem, Moving Beyond Words

“Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.”
- Marsha Norman

"Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive."
- Colossians 3:13

"And to think that in some countries these dogs are eaten."
- Buck, Best in Show

“As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.”
- Adelle Davis

"Believe in yourself and all that you are.  Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."
- Cristian D. Larson

"The scriptures give us patience and encouragement so that we can have hope."
- Romans 15:4

(Recommended reading)

“All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.”
- James Joyce

"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.  No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for.  You are made in the image of what you desire."
- Thomas Merton 

"We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck."
- M.T. Anderson, Feed

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."
- Harriet Tubman

"Yet we know that a person is made right with God not by following the law, but by trusting in Jesus Christ.  So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus, that we might be made right with God because we trusted in Christ.  It is not because we followed the law, because no one can be made right with God by following the law."
- Galatians 2:16

"It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy."
- George, My Best Friend's Wedding

"I choose kindness, I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone, kind to the rich, for they are afraid and kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me."
- Max Lucado

"I promise, there is still opportunity to contribute something new to the world.  It happened the day you were born and can happen every day thereafter."
- Marta Dansie, "Introspection No.1" (via)

"...behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass."
- The Book of Mormon, Alma 37

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
- Guillaume Apollinaire

"Live a life less ordinary
Live a life extraordinary with me
Live a life less sedentary
Live a life evolutionary with me"
- Carbon Leaf

"God's delays are not God's denials."
- Robert H. Schuller

"Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers -- strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength."
- Barbara Katz-Rothman

"I can't prove it, but I can say it." 
- Stephen Colbert

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
- Erica Jong

"Church bells and now I'm awake
And I guess it must be some kind of holiday
I can't seem to join in the celebration
But I'll go to the service
And I'll go to pray
And I'll sing the praises of my maker's name
Like I was as good as she made me..."
- Elliott Smith, "Last Call"

"Break the monotony.  Do something strange and extravagant!"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When peaceful silence lay over all and night had run the half of her swift course, down from the heavens from the royal throne leapt your all powerful word."
- Wisdom 18:14, 15

"I didn't know you could get a Master's degree in social justice...sounds like unemployment.
- Claire

"With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
- Mathew 19:26

"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself, which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."
- Maya Angelou

"Home is where I want to be, but I guess I’m already there."
- Talking Heads, "This Must Be the Place"

"Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor is going to appear on Sesame Street. I love everything about that sentence."
- Chloe Angyal, feministing.com

"I didn't show up for chores so that makes me Blacklisted Bob now, which isn't as cool as Black Beard Bob. I sound like a criminal, not a pirate...and of course pirates aren't criminals."
- Bob

"A good home must be made, not bought."
- Joyce Maynard

Quote of the Day

"Faith means being sure of the things we hope for and knowing that something is real even if we do not see it."
- Hebrews 11:1

Quote of the Day

"I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which God has called you."
- Ephesians 1:18 (NIV)

Quote of the Day

"Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art."
- Robin Tyler

Quote of the Day

 "Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations."
- Orson Welles

Quote of the Day

“There, that is our secret: go to sleep!  You will wake, and remember, and understand.”
- Robert Browning

Quote of the Day

"Love is what we were born with.  Fear is what we learned here."
- Marianne Williamson

Quote of the Day (at camp, auto-post)

"The social task of Christianity is...working to restore human beings to their heritage as children of God."
- YWCA pamphlet (via)

Quote of the Day (at camp, auto-post)

"There is a time when we all fail,
some people take it pretty well,
some take it all out on themselves..."
- The Strokes, "I'll Try Anything Once"

Quote of the Day (at camp, auto-post)

"Therefore we must pay greater attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it."
- Hebrews 2:1 (NRSV)

Quote of the Day (at camp, auto-post)

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered.  
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you.  
Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.  
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.  
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.  
Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.  It was never between you and them anyway."
- Mother Teresa

Quote of the Day (on the road, autopost)

"Religion is to do right.  It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the Day

"We laugh until we think we’ll die, barefoot on a summer night
Nothin’ new is sweeter than with you"
- Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, "Home"

Quote of the Day

"Parents can only give good advice or put [children] on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in her own hands."
- Anne Frank

Quote of the Day

"You number my wanderings; put my tears into your bottle."
- Psalm 56:8

Quote of the Day

"Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and turn headlong down an immutable course."
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Quote of the Day

"The GRE provides a valid assessment of only one thing: how well you take the GRE."
 - The Princeton Review, Cracking the New GRE 2012

Quote of the Day

"Let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."
- Philippians, 4:6-7

Quote of the Day

"Your vote of confidence is overwhelming."
- Grandfather, The Princess Bride

Quote of the Day

"We were always very faithful to go to mass on Sunday, no matter how much alcohol we'd stolen the night before."
- Ricardo, on his early 20s

Quote of the Day

"I'm in love with the world,
Through the eyes of a girl,
Who's still around the morning after."
- Elliott Smith, "Say Yes"

Quote of the Day

"Last year was shitty, and this year I live in Paris.  So, if you're having a hard time, cross your fingers for luck and put your head down and work."
- Jordan Ferney (via)

Quote of the Day

"Okay New York, you've legalized gay marriage.  Can you now please outlaw everybody peeing all over everything?"
- Michael Ian Black (via)

Quote of the Day

"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."
- Alan Alda

Quote of the Day

"It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own."
- Joyce Carol Oates

Quote of the Day

"You smell like pine needles, and have a face like sunshine!"
- Becca, Bridesmaids

Quote of the Day

"Welcome to the endless high-school
Reunion.  Welcome to past friends
And lovers, however kind or cruel.
Let's undervalue and unmend

The present.  Why can't we pretend
Every stage of life is the same?
Let's exhume, resume, and extend
Childhood.  Let's all play the games

That occupy the young.  Let fame
And shame intertwine.  Let one's search
For God become public domain.
Let church.com become our church.


Let's sign up, sign in, and confess
Here at the altar of loneliness."
- Sherman Alexie, "The Facebook Sonnet"

Quote of the Day

"You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences."
- Constantine Peter Cavafy

Quote of the Day

"It's not lavish but it's just so interesting!" 
- CE, re: five house property on waterfront

Quote of the Day

"'Server migration' sounds like a long, lonely trudge through the barren tundra – but I trust A. will be adequately provisioned for this epic journey…" 
- MDD

Quote of the Day

"From there Elisha went up to Bethel.  As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. 'Get out of here, baldy!' they said.  'Get out of here, baldy!'  He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord.  Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys."
- 2 Kings 2:23-24

(Google image search that stuff, right now.)

Quote of the Day

"The grown-up dating world is like your haircut.  Sometimes, awkward triangles occur."
- Jack, 30 Rock 4.17

Quote of the Day

"And after tea, we play Junior Scrabble.  We are the ideal nuclear family.  We eat together, we play improving board games instead of watching television, we smile a lot.  I fear that at any moment I may kill somebody."
- Nick Hornby

Quote of the Day

"Nothing above us, nothing below us, nor anything else in the whole world will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our lord."
- Romans 8:39

Quote of the Day

"C'est très bien de copier ce qu'on voit, c'est beaucoup mieux de dessiner ce que l'on ne voit plus que dans son mémoire. C'est une transformation pendant laquelle l'ingéniosité collabore avec la mémoire. Vous ne reproduisez que ce qui vous a frappé, c'est-à-dire le nécessaire."*
- Edgar Degas

 *"It is very good to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what you can't see any more but is in your memory. It is a transformation in which imagination and memory work together. You only reproduce what struck you, that is to say the necessary."

Quote of the Day

"Pete, as part of some dubious Jesuit volunteer corps (cult?), is living with a half-dozen other conscripts in Sacramento, where he works for the Prisoners' Rights Union, editing a popular periodical called The California Prisoner."
- David Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Quote of the Day

"I gasp like sugar and spice."
- Tegan and Sara, "Paperback Head"

Quote of the Day

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity."
- Charles Mingus

Quote of the Day

"Where and when does this 'real world' occur?"
- William, Almost Famous

Quote of the Day

"'Sometimes bad things happen,' she said to herself.  'Sometimes things change, and we have to change, too.'  She was speaking someone else's words, and I'm not sure she believed them or even understood them.  Perhaps she was committing them to memory because she hoped they would hold the key to her uncertain future."
- Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

Quote of the Day

"There is no dishonor in losing the race...There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose."
- Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

Quote of the Day

"Over and over the lines
you memorized in time,
now you're so tired
and the telephone's too far away."
- Grand Archives, "Torn Blue Foam Couch"

Quote of the Day

"You know those days when you wanted to choose
To not get out of bed and get lost in your head again."
- Foster the People, "Helena Beat"

Quote of the Day

"Do not worry about anything,
but pray and ask God
for everything you need,
always giving thanks."
- Philippians 4:6

Quote of the Day

"I don't understand why people insist on pitting the concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism and science are one?  That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid place that marries them both in a wonderful package called human being."
- Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

Photo via Danielle on FB

Quote of the Day

"Sometimes I don't want to try
Summer days will pass us by
Makes me kind of sad
This uncertainty"
- Acid House Kings, "Say Yes If You Love Me"

Quote of the Day

"America did not invent human rights.  In a very real sense human rights invented America."
- Jimmy Carter

Quote of the Day

"I'm beautiful in my way.  
'Cause God makes no mistakes"
- Lady Gaga, "Born This Way"

Quote of the Day

"Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family.  He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home.  His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun.  Take the cannoli.'"
- Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

Quote of the Day

"Send mail, in any language that I know how to read."
- Danielle

Quote of the Day

"Ask yourselves, young people, about the love of Christ.  Acknowledge His voice resounding in the temple of your heart.  Return His bright and penetrating glance which opens the paths of your life to the horizons of the Church’s mission.  It is a taxing mission, today more than ever, to teach humans the truth about themselves, about their end, their destiny, and to show faithful souls the unspeakable riches of the love of Christ.  Do not be afraid of the radicalness of His demands, because Jesus, who loved us first, is prepared to give Himself to you, as well as asking of you.  If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much."
- Pope John Paul II

Quote of the Day

"But in the first moment of her waking up
She knows she's losing it, oh yeah, she's losing it."
- Belle & Sebastian

Quote of the Day

"In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life.  Our winters are not cold and our summers are not hot and we congratulate ourselves for choosing such a spectacular place to rest our heads and raise our chickens."
- Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

Quote of the Day

"Dancing at discos
Eating cheese on toast"
- Kate Nash, "Merry Happy"

Quote of the Day

“It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.”
- Dolly Parton

Quote of the Day

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how...We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
- Agnes de Mille

Quote of the Day

"One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats."
- Iris Murdoch

Photo via Danielle on FB

Quote of the Day

"God bless Mother Nature
She's a single woman too.
She took on the heavens
And she did what she had to do."
- The Weather Girls, "It's Raining Men"

 

Quote of the Day

"I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person.  I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me."
- Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

 

Quote of the Day

"Glorify the Lord with me, and let us praise his name together."
- Psalm 34:3

 

Quote of the Day

"I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display."
- Anna Quindlen

 

Quote of the Day

"Don't compromise yourself.  You are all you've got."
- Janis Joplin

 

Quote of the Day

"When I was growing up and I introduced myself to people I’d say, 'Hi, my name is Robyn and I’m a girl,' because in Sweden, Robyn is a boy’s name and I had such short hair.  My handicrafts teacher thought I was a boy for three years.  I tried to tell her I was a girl, but she’d just say, 'My little boy wanted to be a girl when he was a kid, too.'  Finally my mom had to write her a note that said, 'Please don’t assume that Robyn is a boy anymore because she’s a girl.'"
- Robyn (via)

 

Quote of the Day

"Are you finding what you were looking for... out here with me? I hope so."
- Steve Zissou, The Life Aquatic

 

Quote of the Day

"Rose, I'm feeling older
I was as lucky as a four-leaved clover"
- Camera Obscura, "Razzle Dazzle Rose"

 

Quote of the Day

"Tonight I'll dream while I'm in bed
when silly thoughts go through my head
about the bugs and alphabet
and when I wake tomorrow I'll bet
that you and I will walk together again
cause I can tell that we're going to be friends"
- The White Stripes

 

Quote of the Day

"That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing."
  - Simone de Beauvoir

Surprise!  Many thanks to my partner-in-crime, Ramsay.