Quote of the Day

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
- Anna Quindlen

Quote of the Day

"Your quiet support means the world to me, as does your tacit endorsement of all my behaviors."
- Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation 4.8

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"Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha."
- Robert Brault

Quote of the Day

"Is fat really the worst thing a human being can be?  Is fat worse than vindictive, jealous, shallow, vain, boring, evil, or cruel?  Not to me."
- J. K. Rowling

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"This is what we call a red flag.  And it's the exact kind of red flag that most of us ignore in order to keep dating the 'lovely' person we are dating."
- The Hairpin (via)

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"Art is both love and friendship, and understanding; the desire to give. It is not charity, which is the giving of Things, it is more than kindness which is the giving of self. It is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these."
- Ansel Adams

Quote of the Day

"I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Mary and Joseph did —- traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.  You may end up sleeping on an old wicker couch with a dog licking your face while an Ab Rocket infomercial plays in the background.  It’s a modern-day manger."
- Tina Fey

Quote of the Day

"...and you my child, will be called
the prophet of the Most High,
for you'll go before our God,
to prepare the way for the Promised One...
 Such is the tender mercy of our God,
who from on high
will bring the Rising Sun to visit us...
and to guide our feet
into the way of peace."
- Luke 1:76, 78-79

Quote of the Day

"Go to Smith?  She couldn't even spell it."
 - Bob Wallace, White Christmas

Winter Weekend 2010

Quote of the Day

"I feel like I have a hundred projects 'in the works' and I rarely give myself credit for them.  As if an idea has to be made tangible to feel accomplished.  We should pat ourselves on the back for brain power alone."
- Marta Dansie, "Introspection No. 5" (via)

Quote of the Day

"Wonder where I will end up tonight
Wonder where I will get stuck"
- Great Lake Swimmers, "Gonna Make It Through This Year"

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“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
- Terry Pratchett

Quote of the Day

"Aspire not to have more, but to be more."
- Oscar Romero

Quote of the Day

"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say, 'Look for the helpers.  You will always find people who are helping.'  To this day, especially in times of disaster, I remember my mother's words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers -- so many caring people in this world."
- Fred Rogers

Quote of the Day

“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”
- William Faulkner

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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
- Sir Winston Churchill

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“Don't talk to strangers. Don't do drugs. Don't smoke. Don't drink and drive. Don't have sex. Wear a condom. Wear sunblock. Wear a seat belt. Wear a helmet. If you see something, say something. Just say no. Stop, drop, and roll. Stop, look, and listen. Look both ways before you cross the street...Safety is an illusion. Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not. You can check left, check right, check left again before you step off the curb and into the crosswalk, but that won't stop an anonymous asshole in his shitty pickup from putting you in intensive care...”
- Megan McCafferty

Quote of the Day

"The best way to spread Christmas cheer, 
is singing loud for all to hear."
- Buddy, Elf

Quote of the Day

"Thinking outrageously,
I write in cursive"
- Sufjan Stevens

Quote of the Day

"Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time."
- Asha Tyson

Quote of the Day

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
- C.S. Lewis

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"And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good."
- John Steinbeck

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"If someone breaks your heart just punch them in the face.  Seriously.  Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream."
- Frank Ocean

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"We read to know that we are not alone."
- C.S. Lewis

Quote of the Day

"There's a thousand shades of white
and a thousand shades of black,
and the same rule always applies:
smile pretty and watch your back."
- Ani DiFranco, "Every State Line"

Quote of the Day

"I found a posting from my 'friend,' who I’m pretty sure I know only from Facebook and I’m not quite sure why.  But I like him a lot and I am pretty sure he is not a serial killer."
- Elizabeth Drescher (via)

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"It's these little victories in the morning that make life worth living."
- JJ

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"The Bible isn't really at all good at being an instruction manual.  It's good at leading us into a tangle of wild poetry, heartbreaking stories, contradictions, twists and turns, the concrete struggles of a vast array of unruly, disparate human beings being sought after by God...The Bible isn't a cage that contains God, making God available to take out or hang in our living room, it's a witness to the fecund, ungraspable Other, and our relationship to that Other."
- Debbie Blue

Quote of the Day

"Suffering is the price of being alive."
- Judy Collins

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

"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 is yourself."
- Alan Alda