Quote of the Day

"Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life."
- Libba Bray

Quote of the Day

"God is greater than sin. The structural and organizational reforms are secondary--that is, they come afterward. The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the people, who walk through the dark night with them, who know how to dialogue and to descend themselves into their people's night, into the darkness, but without getting lost."
- Pope Francis

Quote of the Day

"Pancakes, waffles, sausages, and bacon
I can’t wait 'til my dad will be makin'
Eggs, cereal, jam, and toast
I can’t help that what I love most
Is breakfast"
- Django Jones, "Breakfast"

Quote of the Day

"There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty."
- Steve Maraboli

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"You get it, right? I don't need to put a rainbow over my mom's face. You get it."
- MG

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"I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock."
- E.L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday

Quote of the Day

"A constancy of horns and sirens call out the whole day
City valleys catch the sound and turn it up again"
- Luluc, "Reverie on Norfolk Street"

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"Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around."
- E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

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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

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"I want you to love me in a way that I can show on Instagram."
- Mindy, The Mindy Project 3.21

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"In a 2003 interview, Hurd said, 'I like helping people find answers,' adding that the best thing about being a librarian was service. 'Your whole reason for being there is to help people.'"
- Robert Behre, "Librarian Cynthia Hurd" (via)

Quote of the Day

"For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction."
- Cynthia Occelli

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"I'm the hero of the story, I don't need to be saved"
- Regina Spektor, "Hero"

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"I felt like we were giving each other permission to be brave."
- C. Jane Kendrick, "A Decade of Words" (via)

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"Caring for ourselves, and pursuing our passions, is part of becoming who God created us to be."
- Jessica Turner (via)

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"A nice guy that’s clean. That’s pretty much it -- a nice guy that regularly showers. You’re, like, the cream of the crop."
- Aziz Ansari, "12 Pieces of Advice from Aziz Ansari about Love and Dating" (via)

Quote of the Day

"This is what we are about.
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water the seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that."
- Blessed Oscar Romero

Quote of the Day

"Your life is not a romantic comedy. Right now it seems more like a sad documentary about a criminally insane spinster."
- Gwen, The Mindy Project 1.01

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"Our souls ought to be on fire and yet no one seems awake."
- Susan B. Anthony

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"'But they’re just dishes, Mo.'
NO THEY’RE NOT. Plates and bowls are meant to be simple conveyances for food, but now eating at home would possess the burden of memory: each grown-up, lonely dinner of spaghetti with jarred sauce and salad from a bag would be served on plates that scream in my face COLLEGE! YOUTH! 1998! NORTHAMPTON! NEVER EATING ALONE!"
- Monique Daviau, "To Every Dish, There is a Season" (via)

Quote of the Day

"It's like a symphony just keep listening
And pretty soon you'll start to figure out your part
Everyone plays a piece, and there are melodies
In each one of us"
- David Archuleta, "Glorious"

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"Oh cookie dough, please solve my problems."

- Mindy, The Mindy Project 3.04

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"Seriously: at a residential liberal arts college, they don’t tell you how many meals you’ll eat alone once you graduate."
- Monique Daviau, "To Every Dish, There is a Season" (via)

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"I’m not as strong as I’d like to be but I’m still going to try. I’m just going to walk real fast and then run some, and just try not to wear myself down too fast."
- Harriette Thompson (via)