Quote of the Day

"Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience."
- Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

Quote of the Day

"Civilization begins with distillation."
- William Faulkner

Quote of the Day

"We know in faith that Jesus seeks us out. He wants to heal our wounds, to soothe our feet which hurt from traveling alone, to wash each of us clean of the dust from our journey. He doesn’t ask us where we have been, he doesn’t question us what about we have done."
- Pope Francis

Quote of the Day

"Sunday, 8:00 p.m. Take emotional last glimpse of U.S., having learned many lessons, met dozens of great new friends, and just really grown as a pope."
- The Onion, "Pope Francis' U.S. Itinerary" (via)

Quote of the Day

"Thursday:
9:20 a.m. Arrive at Capitol; revel in delight of meeting so many other people who also commune directly with God
10:05 a.m. Discover five minutes into congressional address that message of love and compassion not so universal"
- The Onion, "Pope Francis' U.S. Itinerary" (via)

Quote of the Day

"Cream cheese frosting is meant to live on top of carrot cake, like God intended."
- Officer O'Neill, Orange is the New Black 3.06

Quote of the Day

"He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? 
He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder,
And went with half my life about my ways."
- A. E. Housman

Quote of the Day

"You don't have to be afraid of living alone. I feel so sad to think of what will happen if you don't learn this huge lesson. You'll lose pieces of yourself along the road. You know how much you love to dance?...All that joy is going to fall away because you're going to stop dancing for twenty years -- unless you take care to listen to yourself and shepherd all the pieces of who you are though to the future."
- Eileen Fisher, What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self

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"Today, there is an inescapable duty to make ourselves the neighbor of every individual, without exception, and to take positive steps to help a neighbor whom we encounter."
- St. Elizabeth of Hungary

Quote of the Day

"To believe in God is not just to love life, but to work so that there is life."
- Jon Sobrino, S.J.

Quote of the Day

"Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."
- Desmond Tutu

Quote of the Day

"Seek peace and pursue it."
- Psalm 34:14

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"You are experiencing a time that won't come again -- not like this. This is time to spend carefully and deliberately. Romantic involvement distracts you and can blind you to what's really in front of you. And what is really in front of you? You are...What is in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself and your growth and development first."
- Phylicia Rashad, in What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self

Quote of the Day

"Are you everyone's favorite librarian? You certainly are mine."
- DF

Quote of the Day

"But I don't really know this place
And it's lonesome here in a wide open space"
- Lord Huron, "Lonesome Dreams"

Quote of the Day

"I been dreaming again of a lonesome road
Where I'm lost and I've got no friends
Just the rocks and the trees
And my lonesome dreams
And a road that'll never end"
- Lord Huron, "Lonesome Dreams"

Quote of the Day

"It doesn't happen all at once...You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
- Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

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"We tend to judge others by their behavior, and ourselves by our intentions."
- Albert F. Schlieder

Quote of the Day

"Stop eating people's old French fries, pigeon. Have some self respect! Don't you know you can fly?"
- Tracy Jordan, 30 Rock 2.06

Quote of the Day

"A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people -- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."
- E. B. White