Quote of the Day

"A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry."
- E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Quote of the Day

"I am good, I am grounded
Davy says that I look taller
I can’t get my head around it
I keep feeling smaller and smaller"
- The National, "I Need My Girl"

Quote of the Day

"Something deep within was telling me it would be OK, but for now this was Fear Day, and I guess I just had to let it happen. This stuff had to come out at some point, I guess. It's weird that it happened at a place called Giggle."
- Rachel Dratch, Girl Walks Into a Bar...

Quote of the Day

"Incomprehensible layers of isolation..."
- Sara Groves, "It's Me"

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"It's said it takes seven years to grow completely new skin cells.
To think, this year I will grow into a body you never will have touched."
- Brett Elizabeth Jenkins

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"When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged. Yet other times it answered with the warm assurance of linked hands. 'Sorry,' it whispered on the wind. 'Sorry for all the pain and loneliness and disappointment. But there is this, too.' It was enough."
- Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

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"I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay...small acts of kindness and love."
 - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
- C.S. Lewis

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"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."
- W. Somerset Maugham

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"Jean-Paul Sartre famously said that 'hell is other people,' which is true enough, but truer still is hell is other people's boyfriends (or girlfriends, as the case may be)."
- Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

Quote of the Day

"Guard your time fiercely. Be generous with it, but be intentional about it."
- David Duchemin

Quote of the Day

"People are good, lovingly they tell me
Do as you should, all will be well
They say life is a test, please give the best answer
A or B or C
Pick one instantly
What if there's so much more to me?"
- Mindy Gledhill, "Pocketful of Poetry"

Quote of the Day

"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
- George Eliot

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"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things."
- Robert Frost

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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
- Agatha Christie

Quote of the Day

"Parents, thank you for bringing your children to Mass today."
- Fr. Flatley

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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through but how many can get through to you."
- Mortimer Adler

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"The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive."
- Bill Watterson

Quote of the Day

"Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Quote of the Day

"We must be our own before we can be another's."
- Emerson

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"There's no need to obsess over if, when, or where a particular place of intersection will come to be. If two people who are meant to marry are following God, He'll arrange for them to find each other somewhere along the way."
- Susan Rohrer

Quote of the Day

"Give people high fives just for getting out of bed. Being a person is hard sometimes."
- Kid President