Quote of the Day

"I wish you more for the New Year than words can express, Peace of mind and rest of your body, supreme satisfaction in your personal life, and in your work. Much joy and some happyness snatched from a mad and bloodthirsty world."
- Emma Goldman, 1939

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"The universe is seeming really huge right now...I need something to hold on to."
- E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

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"Zip codes may change and the familiar may fade, but when we build our lives on the cornerstone of Christ, we're never far from home."
- Alicia Bruxvoort

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"The soul should always stand ajar.   
  That if the heaven inquire,   
He will not be obliged to wait,   
  Or shy of troubling her."
- Emily Dickinson

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"We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color."
- Maya Angelou

(see also Let's Stop Making Fun of Kwanzaa)

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"An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, 'Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.'"
- Luke 2:9-11

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"And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live."
- Stephen King

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"Don’t refer to Christmas as a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Instead, try calling it 'the world’s day off ' or 'a big party for almost everyone.'"
- Paul Rudnick, "Holly or Challah?" (via)

Quote of the Day

"Now my heart is
Returned to sister winter
Now my heart is
As cold as ice"
- Sufjan Stevens, "Sister Winter"

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"The days are long, but the years are short."
- Gretchen Rubin

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"Fitting in and making friends was another story. I wanted a home, but I didn't have a lot of faith in [the city]. I didn't want to get hurt and have an awkward breakup with it. I wanted it to be a clean split if it happened. And to me, a clean split meant not settling in. But time passed, and not settling in started to mean I wasn't committing completely to my work and my life here, and I was ready to commit."
- Judy Greer, I Don't Know What You Know Me From

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"Librarians are just like search engines, except they smile and they talk to me and they don't give me paid-for advertising when they are trying to help. And they have actual hearts."
- Matt Haig

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"I don't think the library is threatened. Circulation of physical books has never been higher. But I wouldn't even agree that libraries are in the book business. I think they are in the information sharing business. And it just so happens that books have been the primary method of sharing information for half a millennium. The library isn't going to compete with the internet. It's going to be part of the internet."
- Tony Marx, President of New York Public Library (via)

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"I thought the local Smith Club president was joking when she asked her 18-month-old daughter to show me the Christmas tree, AND THEN IT SAID 'TREE' AND POINTED IN THE CORRECT DIRECTION."
- Ramsay

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"My music is best understood by children and animals."
- Igor Stravinsky

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"The Lord will guide you continually,
And satisfy your soul in drought,
And strengthen your bones;
You shall be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail."
- Isaiah 58:11

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"If kids come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."
- Barbara Colorose

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"Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is a way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself."
- William Martin, "Make the Ordinary Come Alive"

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"I can't leave you on desk by yourself. The toddlers might start to organize against us."
- JC

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"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!"
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go."
- Joshua 1:9

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"And given half the chance would I take any of it back
It's a fine romance but it's left me so undone"
- Florence + the Machine, "Shake It Out"

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"Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely and once for all in any of us. Like the act of Faith it must be continuous and grow by exercise."
- J.R.R. Tolkien

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"Reach as high as you can, and then reach a little higher. There you will find magic and possibility. And maybe even cookies."
- Marc Johns (via)

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"So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them."
- Sylvia Plath

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"...no matter how difficult it may be to look at the realities of our lives, it is there that we will find the strength to change them. And to suppress any truth is to give it power beyond endurance."
- Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light

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"Every day I want to freeze frame
Scrambling my sleep to keep this fragile frame
From the wind, from the driving rain
Soon as it begins it begins to change its strange changes"
- The Weepies, "Same Changes"

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"My apartment is the only place that I feel safe right now. I have food. I have 600 channels. And none of them want to hurt me."
- Mindy, The Mindy Project 1.10