Quote of the Day

"She was unstoppable, not because she did not have failures or doubts, but because she continued on despite them."
- Beau Taplin

Quote of the Day

"Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to."
- Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Quote of the Day

"Well, this feeling that you're having right now -- which is like, 'I'm supposed to be all things' -- is a feeling that women have every day and have their whole lives. So you're just starting to experience it now."
- Amy Poehler (via)

Quote of the Day

"The turmoil of the day freezes in a thousand absurd postures."
- Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies (via)

Quote of the Day

"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book."
- Jane Smiley

Quote of the Day

"I wake up every morning, plant my feet on the grass outside my bedroom door, and say to myself, fully recognizing I sound like Stuart Smalley: 
'I like you. I accept you. I am going to take care of you today.'"
- C. Jane Kendrick (via)

Quote of the Day

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
- Joseph Campbell

Quote of the Day

"You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and roadtrips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living, breathing, screaming invitation to believe better things."
- Jamie Tworkowski

Quote of the Day

"Oh Jaime, you walk the town
and block it out with the stereo sound"
- Millennial Youth Pirates, "Dance Love" (via)

Quote of the Day

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."
- Jonathan Safran Foer

Quote of the Day

"I am just so proud of all of you who have grown up with us, and I know how tough it is some days to look with hope and confidence on the months and years ahead. But I would like to tell you what I often told you when you were much younger. I like you just the way you are."
- Mister Rogers

Quote of the Day

"And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart."
- Ezekiel 36:26

Quote of the Day

"It is hard to convince people of this, but oatmeal truly is miraculous. It gives you an amazing amount of energy, like cocaine, if cocaine were really good for your digestion and didn't ruin lives."
- Kelly Williams Brown, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps

Quote of the Day

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."
- James Thurber

Quote of the Day

"I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles."
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Quote of the Day

"Not that I have much to offer
God knows I have so much to gain"
- Rufus Wainwright, "Harvester of Hearts"

Quote of the Day

"I think it is important for all of us to figure out what being a feminist means for ourselves. For me, being a person should afford the freedom to be yourself, without having to follow any particular set of roles or expectations that come from society."
- Meredith Walker

Quote of the Day

"Okay, fine, maybe I’m a little old-fashioned. I’m sorry I’m a real woman and not some over-sexed New York nympho like those sluts on Everybody Loves Raymond."
- Liz Lemon, 30 Rock 5.05

Quote of the Day

"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time -- waking and sleeping. It does not change God -- it changes me."
- C.S. Lewis

Quote of the Day

"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
- Carlos Castenada

Quote of the Day

"Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien –- but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most -– from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets."
- Barack Obama

Quote of the Day

"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."
- Alain de Botton

Quote of the Day

"...let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us"
- Hebrews 12:1

Quote of the Day

"I was sleeping in the lilies
Or was I up all night
These days it's hard to tell 
what's half asleep from fully alive"
- Cloud Cult, "Chemicals Collide"

Quote of the Day

"I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares."
- Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Quote of the Day

"Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps."
- Samuel Beckett (via)

Quote of the Day

"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known."
- Carson McCullers

Quote of the Day

"When asked by police if he was in possession of any weapons, the resident responded that the only 'guns' present were his biceps, the Daily Hampshire Gazette reports. Then the man proceeded to flex his muscles for the officers."
- Michelle Williams, MassLive news article (via)

Quote of the Day

"I don't know what's making me so afraid
tiny cloud over my head
heavy and grey with a hint of dread
I don't like to feel this way"
- Sara Groves, "From This One Place"