Quote of the Day

"I want good love, I want it so bad.
It's a seed stuck in my throat
it's a weed around my hope, it makes me choke"
- Deb Talan, "Saturn's Light"

Quote of the Day

"As a society, we encourage girls and women to be emotionally accessible, and in touch with their feelings; we say that it's an innately feminine trait.  We say it, that is, until they have feelings that make us uncomfortable, at which point we recast them as melodramatic harpies, shrieking banshees, and basket cases."
- Tori Amos

Quote of the Day

"So her strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea."
- Roald Dahl, Matilda

Quote of the Day

"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities.  Seize common occasions and make them great."
- Orison Swett Marden

Quote of the Day

"Try not to confuse 'attachment' with 'love.'  Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love-of-self than love-of-another.  Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn't about what others can give you because you're empty.  It is about what you can give others because you're already full."
- Yasmin Mogahed

Quote of the Day

"Let yourself be silently drawn
by the strange pull
of what you really love.
It will not lead you astray."
- Rumi

Quote of the Day

"A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day.  A string of such moments can change the course of your life."
- Christopher Germer

Quote of the Day

“The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.”
- Polly Horvath, My One Hundred Adventures

Quote of the Day

"It is way too early for this, guys.  I haven't even had my first cup of wine today."
- Pete, 30 Rock 4.16

Quote of the Day

"Don't let the beauty standard give you more things to hate about yourself.  Perfect is a social construct.  Hot weather isn't."
- Lesley Powers, "In Honour of Bare Legs (If You Want to Have Them)" (via)

Quote of the Day

“Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.  For those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year.  You can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past.  Summer just opens the door and lets you out.”
- Deb Caletti

Quote of the Day

"If there's one thing I've learned it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for the fantastic or the marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough."
- David Levithan, Every Day

Quote of the Day

"Jack and I know how we feel.  We don't have to say it out loud like a couple of gays getting married in jean shorts in Provincetown...while I'm just trying to enjoy an ice cream on the pier."
- Colleen Donaghy, 30 Rock 6.16

Quote of the Day

"Here we encounter our first trial: the left turn...Just a left turn? Would you say it's just a bullet to the brain? Intersections are the devil's playground, and left turns are his swingset.
- Mr. Ecklestone, Studio C (via)

Quote of the Day

"If God were edible -- not that I'm Catholic -- but if it was cool to eat God, he'd be a chicken finger."
- Troy, Community 1.21

Quote of the Day

"This is the stuff that drives me crazy
This is the stuff that's getting to me lately
In the middle of my little mess
I forget how big I'm blessed"
- Francesca Battistelli, "This is the Stuff"

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"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.  They went out and happened to things."
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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“I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.”
- Alison Bechdel

Quote of the Day

"The measure of achievement is not winning awards.  It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.  I think of my strawberry souffle.  I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it."
- Julia Child

Quote of the Day

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.”
- Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

Quote of the Day

"People see God every day, they just don't recognize him."
- Pearl Bailey

Quote of the Day

"In the present climate, there is a danger that love is being idealized as the only path to salvation.  Whether or not they are enjoying intimate relationships, human beings need a sense of being part of a larger community...The modern assumption that intimate relationships are essential to personal fulfillment tends to make us neglect the significance of relationships that are not so intimate."
- Anthony Storr

Quote of the Day

"I don't want to do things.  I want to not do things."
- April, Parks and Recreation

Quote of the Day

"I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises."
- Ellen Degeneres

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“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby