Quote of the Day

"We are volcanoes.  When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change.  There are new mountains"
- Ursula Le Guin, 1986 Bryn Mawr commencement address

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"There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing."
- John Cage

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"I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it."
- Henry David Thoreau

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"She's so swishy in her satin and tat
In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat
Oh God, I could do better than that"
- David Bowie, "Queen Bitch"

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"Start with the menu, treat yourself
to a feast. I really doubt that you’ll die from bacon
And you gotta live, you gotta live, you gotta live"
- Pomplamoose, "Achin Heart"

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"Change can be scary, but the best we can do is try to adapt...I wish that meant I could grow wings or infrared vision instead of this vague sense of unease."
- Marten and Hannelore, QC #1847

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"Try to keep your chin up
No point losing face...
Throw out your agenda
Takes up too much space"
- Pomplamoose, "Centrifuge"

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"Listen to the mustn'ts, child.  Listen to the don'ts.  Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts.  Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child.  Anything can be."
- Shel Silverstein

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"Half of what I say is meaningless
But I say it just to reach you"
- The Beatles, "Julia"

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"In the history of language
the first obscenity was silence."
- Christina Davis, "The Primer"

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"A traveler without observation is a bird without wings."
- Moslih Eddin Saadi

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"The world did not say to her as it did to them,
Write if you choose; it makes no difference to me.
The world said with a guffaw, Write?  What's the good of your writing?"
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (via)

Quote of the Day

"I'm sorry, but was this chicken seasoned with molten lava?"
- Shawn, Psych ep. 4.6

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"The influence of my father also had a great deal to do with my going into the ministry. This is not to say that he ever spoke to me in terms of being a minister, but that my admiration for him was the great moving factor. He set forth a noble example that I didn't mind following."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quote of the Day

"Yes, I will need another one of these."
- Steve, after his first-ever ice cream sandwich

via tonto-kidd on Flickr

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"Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."
- Kurt Vonnegut

(Sketchy-made foot trails in the snowy backyard)

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"So far away and I just can't see you I'm
So far along and I just don't need you"
- Tegan and Sara, "Speak Slow"

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"Cherish your solitude.  Take trains by yourself to places you have never been.  Sleep alone under the stars.  Learn how to drive a stick shift.  Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.  Say no whenever you don't want to do something.  Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees.  Decide whether you want to be liked or admired.  Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you're doing here.  Believe in kissing."
- Eve Ensler

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"You don't have to be constantly eating as long as there's food in the world."
- Atticus, to Sketchy

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“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
- John F. Kennedy

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"It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start."
- Mother Teresa

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"I don't lose things. I place things in locations which later elude me."
- Shawn, Psych ep. 4.5

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"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."
- Stephen Wright

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"My mother gave me the prayer to Saint Theresa.
I added a used tube ticket, Kleenex,
several Polo mints (furry), a tampon, pesetas,
a florin. Not wishing to be presumptuous,
not trusting you either, a pack of 3.
I have a pen. There is space for my guardian
angel, she has to fold her wings. Passport.
A key. Anguish, at what I said/didn’t say
when once you needed/didn’t need me. Anadin.
A credit card. His face the last time,
my impatience, my useless youth.
That empty sack, my heart. A box of matches."
- Maura Dooley, “What Every Woman Should Carry”

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"You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right."
- Dorothy Day

Image via Suzanne Cabrera on Flickr.

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"People in this town don’t really like their government employees being activists. Last year a garbage man was suspended for wearing a Livestrong bracelet."
- Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation

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"...except Valium in wee fistfuls."
- Prior Walter, Angels in America I

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"I appreciate my wide beveled spatula which fulfills
the moment I realized I would grow up and own such things."
- Jennifer Sweeney, "Fragments for the End of the Year"

 Image via Amadika on Flickr.