Quote of the Day

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
- John Muir

Quote of the Day

"Of course I'll be alright
I just had a bad night"
- Nada Surf, "Inside of Love"

Quote of the Day

"When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and somedays we could tight-rope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change."
- Jeanette Winterson

Quote of the Day

"'So that's what you think you're going to do? Bring God to everyone?'
'Yes. After a nap.'
'Of course, I meant after a nap.'"
- Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Quote of the Day

"Allow me to give you some advice from the heart: don't give up art, and even give yourself over to it even more than so far... Living in solitude and embittering your soul with recollections, you can make your life very gloomy. There is a single refuge, a single medicine: art and creative work."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, letter to Yekaterina Yunge, 11 April 1880

Quote of the Day

"And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all."
- Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

Quote of the Day

"Currently I am taking a photo of everything I eat and answering this question: Why am I eating this? And yes, sometimes the answer is BECAUSE I AM LONELY AND THIS RITZ CRACKER LOOKS LIKE A GREAT FRIEND. In all caps. Of course."
- C. Jane Kendrick (via)

Quote of the Day

"Today me will live in the moment, unless it's unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie."
- Cookie Monster

Quote of the Day

"Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps."
- Ann Patchett, "And the Winner Isn't..." (via)

Quote of the Day

"My sister and I decided that we need to eat ice cream everyday...for our health."

- Molly

Quote of the Day

"I am carrying on a great project and cannot come down."
- Nehemiah 6:3

Quote of the Day

"I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars! You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else. Heal the wounds, heal the wounds...And you have to start from the ground up."
- Pope Francis

Quote of the Day

"If art doesn't make us better, then what on Earth is it for?"
- Alice Walker

Quote of the Day

"Anyway, those tickets, the old ones, they didn't tell you where you were going, much less where you came from. He couldn't remember seeing any dates on them, either, and there was certainly no mention of time. It was all different now, of course. All this information. He wondered why that was."

- Zadie Smith

Quote of the Day

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."

- E.F. Schumacher

Quote of the Day

"The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." 

- T.S. Elliot

Quote of the Day

"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."

- Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Quote of the Day

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring -- it was peace."

- Milan Kundera

Quote of the Day

"A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones."

- Arthur Conan Doyle

Quote of the Day

"The only thing that's wrong with their plane is that you're not on it."

- Atticus

Quote of the Day

"I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again."
- Anaïs Nin

Quote of the Day

"Maybe it's one where time will tell
Maybe it's one where it's just fare-thee-well"
- Aimee Mann, "Build That Wall"

Quote of the Day

"Nights and days came and passed
and summer and winter
and the sun and the wind
and the rain.
And it was good to be a little island.
A part of the world
and a world of its own
all surrounded by the bright blue sea."
- Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Island

Quote of the Day

"The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history."
- Woodrow Wilson

Quote of the Day

"Keep alert, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong.
Let all that you do be done in love."
- 1 Corinthians 16:13-14

Quote of the Day

“Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.”
- Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

Quote of the Day

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
- Pericles