Quote of the Day

"Reading...is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction."
- David L. Ulin

Quote of the Day

"Kids...They're always sticky like they've got jam on their hands. Even if there's no jam in the house, somehow, they've always got jam on their hands! I'm not the right guy to deal with that. I have no patience for jam hands!"
- Luke, Gilmore Girls 2.05

Quote of the Day

"I wish I was a small child so I could enjoy your library skills."
- Atticus

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"If you didn't make allowances in this family, you'd go nuts."

- Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night

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"As we fix our gaze on the Holy Family of Nazareth, as they were forced to become refugees, let us think of the tragedy of those migrants and refugees who are victims of rejection and exploitation."
- Pope Francis

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"I was so glad to see you climb right into the punch bowl last night."
- C.E.

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"It being Christmas Eve, there was, as I had foreseen, a good deal of revelry and what not."
- P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit

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"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

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"We can walk out after the dark
Because it's Christmas time!
Colored lights glow from the park
'Cause it's Christmas time!"
- Sufjan Stevens, "Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time!"

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"Knowing that Jesus still walks our streets, that he is part of the lives of his people, that he is involved with us in one vast history of salvation, fills us with hope. A hope which liberates us from the forces pushing us to isolation and lack of concern for the lives of others, for the life of our city."
- Pope Francis, Mass at Madison Square Garden, New York City

Quote of the Day

"The Venn diagram of boys who don't like smart girls and boys you don't want to date...is a circle."
- John Green

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"Sleep peacefully, for your labors are done, your pains are turned into tales and songs."
- Carlos Bulosan

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"Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women."
- Nora Ephron

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"When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the world better than it treated you."
- Patrick Stump

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"It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin."
- Mma Ramotswe, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

Quote of the Day

"She understood silence the way he understood darkness -- running from neither as the sun set and the words ran out."

- Marina Keegan, "Reading Aloud"

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"Don't apologize for simply existing...because it is not wrong. If you want to say thank you, don't say sorry."
- Yao Xiao (via)

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"Explorations end in Christ,
Decorations left behind,
Where will you go, where will you go,
where will you go?
Troubled heart, troubled heart, here with all"
- Sufjan Stevens, "Jupiter Winter"

Quote of the Day

"You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don't dance. So you might as well dance."
- Gertrude Stein

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"Let our hearts and hands be stretched out in compassion towards others, for everyone is walking his or her own difficult path."

- Dieter Uchtdorf

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"Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on what we're waiting for."
- Charles Stanley (via)

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"You know what they say when you are going through hell? Just keep going. So I did. I just happened to be holding knitting needles."
- Lynne Knowlton (via)

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"I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that He will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things."
- Mother Teresa

Quote of the Day

"I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
- Maya Angelou

Quote of the Day

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way...Things I had no words for."
- Georgia O'Keeffe (via)

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"Knitting is a sexy indoor sport."
- Lynne Knowlton (via)

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"It may take an ocean of whiskey and time
To wash all of the letdown out of your mind
And this may not be the thing you requested but I
Am the answer to all your prayers"
- They Might Be Giants, "Answer" (via)

Quote of the Day

"It might seem like a thankless existence
But don't lose hope just yet
You'll be remembered for your persistence
And this is the thanks you get"
- They Might Be Giants, "Answer" (via)