Quote of the Day

"A good book has no ending."

- R.D. Cummings 

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"It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the days; but always if they wanted to do anything special they said this was Saturday night, and then they did it."

- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action...Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

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"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."

- G. K. Chesterton 

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"Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited."

- Thomas Merton

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"I don't babysit, and those kids don't sit."

- C.E.

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"Think the best of each other, especially of those you say you love. Assume the good and doubt the bad."

- Jeffrey R. Holland

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"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."

- Maya Angelou

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"He also learned how to govern the frogs."

- Griffis, Japanese Fairy Tales (1923)

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"Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films."

- Terry Pratchett, The Bromeliad Trilogy

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"Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends."

- St. Alphonsus Ligouri

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"I need help reacting to something."

- Abed, Community 3.15

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"To you and to all I repeat: never yield to discouragement, do not lose trust, do not allow your hope to be extinguished."

- Pope Francis

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"Now is the time to discard that carefulness that too closely resembles a lack of conviction."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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"When we really delve into the reasons for why we can't let something go, there are only two: an attachment to the past or a fear of the future."

- Marie Kondo

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"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."

- Anne Lamott

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"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."

- Madeleine L'Engle

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"When I'm broken and bent, could you take me on the mend?

And lay me down on your bed like freshly laundered linen"

- Boom Forest, "Freshly Laundered Linen"

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"I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers..."

- Philemon 1:4

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"We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet, and life is a banquet, too..."

- Dorothy Day

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"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

- Charles Dickens

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"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone."

- Gertrude Stein

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"'What shall you do all your vacation?' asked Amy.

'I shall lie abed late, and do nothing,' replied Meg."

- Louisa May Alcott

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"If you don't have a passion, there's nothing wrong with you. I think that life is not so much about following your passion, but about realizing that your journey is a long one. Focus on developing skills...Get curious about what you enjoy doing (and don't enjoy), and notice what gives you a lot of energy."

- Joanna Barsh, in Mistakes I Made at Work

Quote of the Day

"You're on a different road, I'm in the Milky Way

You want me down on earth, but I am up in space."

- Icona Pop, "I Love It"

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"[History taught in schools is much like a Disney story.] Let's put some fear back in history. Let's make it real."

- Oliver Stone

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"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."

- Maya Angelou

Quote of the Day

"Hugs were also on the agenda. (Hugs should be on all the agendas right now.)"
- M.G. 

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"Whatever your personal opinion of the Clintons, as politicians or as human beings, that dynamic is real. We, as a culture, do not take women seriously on a profound level. We do not believe women. We do not trust women. We do not like women."
- Lindy West, "Her Loss" (via)

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"I cried because I want my daughters to feel that blazing pride, that affirmation of their boundless capacity- - not from their husbands, but from their world, from the atmosphere, from inviolable wells of certainty inside themselves. I cried because it's not fair, and I'm so tired, and every woman I know is so tired. I cried because I don't even know what it feels like to be taken seriously -- not fully, not in that whole, unequivocal, confident way that's native to handshakes between men. I cried because it does things to you to always come second."
- Lindy West, "Her Loss" (via)

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"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."

- Washington Irving

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"The biggest challenge of the day is how to bring about a revolution of the heart. A revolution that has to start with each one of us."

- Dorothy Day

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"Being a Christian entails promoting the dignity of our brothers and sisters, fighting for it, living for it."
- Pope Francis

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"I didn't know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good."

- Ransom Riggs

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"I am so fond of him."

- A. A. Milne, When We Very Young

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"It's all messy: the hair. The bed. The words. The heart. Life..."

- William Leal

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"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."

- Italo Calvino

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"Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live."

- Natalie Babbitt

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"Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, 'Romance and detective work won't mix tonight!'"
- Carolyn Keene, Nancy Drew: The Bungalow Mystery

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"Yes, she had made some substantial mistakes...but she could handle it. She could take the things that were broken and, if not put them back together, get rid of them with a minimum of unpleasantness."
- Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

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"Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it."

- Yves Saint Laurent

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"October throws herself before my feet
And the sky goes powder blue
Holding her breath for me
I never thought myself a city shoe
But it's made of gold today
And it breaks my heart in two"
- The Guggenheim Grotto, "The Universe is Laughing"

Quote of the Day

"Wish I were in love, and that what I considered really attractive was in love with me."

- Julia (McWilliams) Child, via Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child

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"It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them."

- Agatha Christie

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"I must be mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."

- Anaïs Nin

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"The word happiness...poked at her now. For Agnes realized that her happiness was composed of a thousand ordinary satisfactions built up over a life lived according to what might seem to others modesty and monotonous routines."

- Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

Quote of the Day

"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul."

- Simone Weil

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"If marriage is the long-term contract that many daters still hope to land, dating itself often feels like the worst, most precarious form of contemporary labor: an unpaid internship. You cannot be sure where things are heading, but you try to gain experience. If you look sharp, you might get a free lunch."

- Moira Weigel, Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

Quote of the Day

"My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage."

- Aunt Frances, Practical Magic

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"The elemental struggle is with our feeling of being wrong, with our guilt and shame at what we are. That's what we have to befriend."

- Pema Chodron 

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"I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you in my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had and lift you like a prayer to the sky."

- Rumi

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"Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper."
- David Quammen

Quote of the Day

"I go to a party, 
I go out to tea, 
I go to an aunt for a week at the sea, 
I come back from school or from playing a game; 
Wherever I come from, it's always the same: 
'Well? Have you been a good girl, Jane?'"
- A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six

Quote of the Day

"There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book."

- Frank Serafini 

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"Healing is less about 'saving' or 'fixing' and more about 'allowing' ourselves to ease into the remembering that there's a wholeness that has been there all along."
- Emmanuel Dagher

Quote of the Day

"I've learned to live with a very flexible definition of 'okay.'"

- Grace, Grace and Frankie 2.07

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"She shut herself away. Some people grieve by holding fast to the love of others, some by rejecting all companionship. Some grieve with tears and some with dry howls. Some grieve like water, some burn. Agnes was pure slate, dark and impenetrable.

Even books didn't help -- she began and discarded them until they threatened her couch in tottering stacks."

- Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse 

Quote of the Day

"We weren't right for each other. A lot of people aren't...You know who really knows me? My Spotify Discover Weekly playlist."

- Alex, Casual 2.12

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"What kind of life can you have in a house without books?"

- Sherman Alexie

Quote of the Day

"When I'm alone now

When I'm all alone 

I'm not lonely

No, I'm not lonely"

- Sam Phillips, "When I'm Alone" 

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"I didn't start writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it."

- Beverly Cleary  

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"If something is fun, or messy, or beautiful, you remember it."

- MaryLea Harris

Quote of the Day

"Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her more than Jesus did."

- Saint Maximilian Kolbe 

Quote of the Day

"Let's crack open the green notebook. That's for serious notes."

- Elsbeth Tascioni, The Good Wife 7.15

Quote of the Day

"She,

In the dark,

Found light

Brighter than many ever see.

She,

Within herself,

Found loveliness,

Through the soul's own mastery.

And now the world receives

From her dower:

The message of the strength 

Of inner power."

- Langston Hughes

Quote of the Day

"I feel like every few weeks I see pictures of you attending a wedding."

- G.W.

Quote of the Day

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)

it's always ourselves we find in the sea"

- e. e. cummings

 

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"For it was through books that she felt her life to be unjudged. Look at all of the great mix-ups, messes, confinements, and double-dealings in Shakespeare, she thought. Identities disguised continually, in a combative dance of illusion and discovery. Hers was hardly the most sinful, tragic, or bizarre. Hers was merely what it was, and her aches over it as well."

- Louise Erdrich, Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

Quote of the Day

"Cause every ship at sea deserves a harbor,

No little tree alone can make an arbor,

Don't I know it"

- The Weepies, "Wild Boy"

Quote of the Day

"All the stories in all the world start with families. And stories of sisters intrigue me the most."

- C. Jane Kendrick

Quote of the Day

"We wanted a family so bad, all of us. And we just grabbed each other and made us one. Simple as that."

- Cynthia Rylant, Missing May

Quote of the Day

"Start by discarding, all at once, intensely and completely."

- Marie Kondo

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"Our sweet spot is that place where our greatest passions meet our talent and abilities. Finding your sweet spot often means a messy process of learning how to embrace the God-given talents you already have, rather than those you wish you had. And sometimes finding your sweet spot means taking a wrong turn or even failing. Don’t let the fear of falling short deter you. Your sweet spot is there, even if you haven’t found it yet. And in the end, it’s exactly where you need to be."

- Ruth Soukup

Quote of the Day

"Summer is: drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maple in New England."

- Archibald MacLeish

Quote of the Day

"Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors."

- Amy Poehler, Yes Please

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"The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain."

- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."

- Maya Angelou

Quote of the Day

"Never be in a hurry. Do everything in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything, even if your whole world seems upset."

- St. Francis de Sales

Quote of the Day

"Women matter. Women are half of us. When you raise every woman to believe that we are insignificant, that we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness; when you pit women against one another, obsessing over our flaws rather than our power and potential...It steers humanity toward conservatism and walls and the narrow interests of men, and it keeps us adrift in waters where women's safety and humanity are secondary to men's pleasure and convenience."

- Lindy West, Shrill

Quote of the Day

"You just hum along

For fear of getting the words wrong"

- Django Jones, "All That I See"

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"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

- Jane Austen 

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"I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company."

- Henry Miller

Quote of the Day

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

- Nelson Mandela 

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"I could blame somebody else for my heart 

For the part that's broken

I could blame somebody else for my heart

But I kept that spoken"

- The Weepies, "Does Not Bear Repeating"

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"In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting -- any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, 'Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Christian friends, 'Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.' The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others."

- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Quote of the Day

"I take some small comfort in still being able to be horrified and brought to tears."

- Roxanne Gay

Quote of the Day

"For me Pinterest means something very different -- that is, resembling the works of playwright Harold Pinter."

- KE

Quote of the Day

"The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past."

- Marie Kondo

Quote of the Day

"I didn't read what they said because I don't like to spoil my own point of view by learning what other people think."

- The Annoyed Librarian 

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/blogs/annoyedlibrarian/2015/08/27/no-librabots-here/

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"For a long time they looked at the river beneath them, saying nothing, and the river said nothing too, for it felt very quiet and peaceful on this summer afternoon."

- A. A. Milne

Quote of the Day

"Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning."

- Elie Wiesel

Quote of the Day

"The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs."

- Thornton Wilder

Quote of the Day

"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them...We won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear."

- Judy Blume 

Quote of the Day

"I think it's important to realize you can miss something, but not want it back."

- Paulo Coelho

Quote of the Day

"Do you remember how I searched you out

How I climbed your city's walls?"

- Tegan and Sara, "I Was a Fool"

Quote of the Day

"You were made to live intentionally. You were made to choose how you live your life, not to let life simply happen to you."

- Matthew Warner, Messyand Foolish

Quote of the Day

"To be your own person, you need good friends. Friends are the treasure of your life."

- Garrison Keillor

Quote of the Day

"Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right."

- C.H. Spurgeon 

Quote of the Day

"How to fight loneliness

Smile all the time

Shine your teeth til meaningless

Sharpen them with lies"

- Wilco, "How to Fight Loneliness"

Quote of the Day

"There's no open weeping allowed at the dinner table."

- AE

Quote of the Day

"I keep a close watch on this heart of mine."

- Allo Darlin, "Heartbeat Chilli"

Quote of the Day

"Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;

In my own way, and with my full consent.

Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely

Went to their deaths more proud than this one went.

Some nights of apprehension and hot weeping

I will confess; but that's permitted me;

Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keeping

Rubbed in a cage a wing that would be free.

If I had loved you less or played you slyly

I might have held you for a summer more,

But at the cost of words I value highly,

And no such summer as the one before.

Should I outlive this anguish, and men do,

I shall have only good to say of you."

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Quote of the Day

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o'er wrought heart and bids it break."

- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Quote of the Day

"Atticus would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning."
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Quote of the Day

"Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person."

- Gloria Steinem

Quote of the Day

"The man that won you

Has gone off and undone you.

That great beginning

Has seen the final inning."

- Ira Gershwin, "The Man That Got Away"

(via: https://youtu.be/UzyPMRo8ZUQ)

Quote of the Day

"With my friends, the sad truth is that our best 'best friend' days are behind us...We will never come home to each other again and we will never again have each other's undivided attention. That version of our friendship is over."

- Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

Quote of the Day

"To put it all in place

Requires a special grace

A single gesture of sweet emotion

A single notion of bitter potion."

- Komeda, "It's Alright, Baby"

Quote of the Day

"I'll dance at your wedding, 

I'll have a wonderful time"

- Peggy Lee, "I'll Dance at Your Wedding"

Quote of the Day

"Stand at the crossroads and look;
ask for the ancient paths,
ask where the good way is, and walk in it,
and you will find rest for your souls."
- Jeremiah 6:16

Quote of the Day

"I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year."

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Quote of the Day

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

- Mark Twain

Quote of the Day

"Your lives will take different paths, but you will always be Smithies. You are the women of Smith. You are fiercely independent, wicked smart, trail blazing, über confident and shockingly entitled."

- Jane Lynch, 2012 commencement speech

Quote of the Day

"She is clothed with strength and dignity and laughs without fear of the future."

- Proverbs 31:25

Quote of the Day

"Children should learn that reading is a pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school."

- Beverly Cleary

Quote of the Day

"Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."

- Rumi

Quote of the Day

"I know a lot of fancy words.

I tear them from my heart and my tongue.

Then I pray."

- Mary Oliver, "Six Recognitions of the Lord"

Quote of the Day

"Someone I loved once gave me 

a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand 

that this, too, was a gift."

- Mary Oliver, "The Uses of Sorrow"

Quote of the Day

"When the present feels as endless as an impossibly long hallway between airport terminals, white and sterile and numb, we're particularly receptive to signs."

- Kate Bolick, Spinster

Quote of the Day

"Lord, if it's not your will, let it slip through my grasp and give me the peace not to worry about it."

- Tony Gaskins

Quote of the Day

"I should have wrote a letter

And grieve what I happen to grieve

My black shroud

I never trust my feelings 

I waited for the remedy"

- Sufjan Stevens, "Should've Known Better"

Quote of the Day

"Don't mind being lonely,

Don't need to be told.

Stop acting so holy,

I know I'm full of holes."

- Frightened Rabbit, "Holy"

Quote of the Day

"She had two messages for me in my growing up years: to be a lady -- don't be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment, these things just sap energy and waste time -- and the other was to be independent."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg 

Quote of the Day

"Do we really have to answer every existential question about our lives right now?"

- Grace, Grace and Frankie 2.02

Quote of the Day

"Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort...Some are like the little, delicate flowers which love to hide in the dripping mosses...But others require an open field, a rich and loosened soil, or they never show their proper hues."

- Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

Quote of the Day

"You can take the road that takes you to the stars now

I can take the road that will see me through"

- Nick Drake, "Road"

Quote of the Day

"I felt like I was studying extremely hard for an exam, only to see others ace it without cracking a book...Other people were getting their PhDs in relationships. I couldn't even pass the second grade!"

- Sara Eckel

Quote of the Day

"You were almost kind, you were almost true

Don't let me see that other side of you

You have learned in time that you must be cruel

I'll have to wait to get the best of you"

- Guster, "Either Way"

Quote of the Day

"Human beings are not houses -- you don't walk in and say, 'Well, so long as we gut the kitchen and add a third bedroom, this could work,' or 'It has no charm, but it's close to work and it's all I can afford.' No. You love them as they are, or you let them find someone else who does."

- Sara Eckel

Quote of the Day

"If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave."

- Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

Quote of the Day

"If there is a prize for rotten judgment, we are all getting participant ribbons."

- E.B.

Quote of the Day

"The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness

And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour,

And for me, now as then, it is too much.

There is too much world."

- Czeslaw Milosz

Quote of the Day

"The attention is flattering. For the first five minutes. Now I know how poems feel."

- Margaret Edson, W;t

Quote of the Day

"Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out."

- Margaret Edson, W;t

Quote of the Day

"Do you think because you are virtuous, that there shall be no more cakes and ale?"

- Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Quote of the Day

"Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking."
- Mr. Gruffydd, How Green Was My Valley

Quote of the Day

"I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross, and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk."

- Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Quote of the Day

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

- Jane Austen

Quote of the Day

"And every day, when your heart especially feels the loneliness of life, pray."

- St. Padre Pio

Quote of the Day

"You wear the truth under your sole,

Like a pebble

It makes you limp and sway

But it will out someday"

- Deb Talan, "Unravellling" 

Quote of the Day

"The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it."
- Robert Creeley

Quote of the Day

"I love the way you grab my hands

And tell me all about your plans"

- Mindy Gledhill, "Hourglass"

Quote of the Day

"Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what You want me to be and becoming that person."

- St. Therese of Liseux

Quote of the Day

"I don't mind if I'm getting nowhere

Circling the seed of light

I've been greedy for some destination I can't get to

Where are you?"

- Sam Phillips, "Five Colors"

Quote of the Day

"I made a somewhat cheerless meal, and bade adieu early."

- Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (via)

Quote of the Day

"I didn't know where to picture myself next -- a failure of imagination, you could call it, though it felt more like a flailing response to an unseen adversary, or refusal of the options as I saw them presented. How do you embark on your adulthood when you don't know where you're headed?"

- Kate Bolick, Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own

Quote of the Day

"I cannot remember all the books I have read any more than all the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the Day

"This is such a pity.
We should give all our love to each other.
Not this hate that destroys us."
- Weezer, "This Is Such a Pity"

Quote of the Day

"I'm a lucky person because I love to read. Reading gets me thinking and helps me to succeed.

Sometimes when I'm lonely, a book is all I need.

I'm a lucky person because I love to read."

- Jack Prelutsky, "Love to Read"

Quote of the Day

"The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new."

- Pema Chodron

Quote of the Day

"Because my life is only mine to hold

The nights are cold, and it's snowing

In Vermont, but all that I want is here

In the clear light of the streetlight"

- Girlyman, "Everything's Easy"

Quote of the Day

"She'd always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days or unseen and infrequently thought of. How without any one of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place, the dial turned just one or two degrees."

- Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven 

Quote of the Day

"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

- G. K. Chesterton 

Quote of the Day

"Why, in his life of frequent travel, had he never recognized the beauty of flight? The improbability of it. The sound of the engines faded, the airplane receding into blue until it was folded into silence and became a far-distant dot in the sky."

- Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

Quote of the Day

"The Gospel of Easter is very clear: we need to go back there, to see Jesus risen, and to become witnesses of his Resurrection. This is not to go back in time; it is not a kind of nostalgia. It is returning to our first love, in order to receive the fire which Jesus has kindled in the world and to bring that fire to all people, to the very ends of the Earth."

- Pope Francis

Quote of the Day

"It is presumptuous of me to wish to choose my path, because I cannot tell which path is best for me. I must leave it to the Lord, Who knows me, to lead me by the path which is best for me."

- St. Teresa of Avila 

Quote of the Day

"Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with Him is shown in times of difficulty."

- Pope Francis

Quote of the Day

"I don't leap. I take small, planned steps like an arthritic dog."

- Jess, New Girl 5.11

Quote of the Day

"I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed."
- David Benioff

Quote of the Day

"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."
- James Joyce

Quote of the Day

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
 - Ernest Hemingway

Quote of the Day

"Moms come up to me at book signings and describe how they're telling their daughters, 'These were my favorite books!' I say, 'Quit it! That's the biggest turnoff!' You want to get them to read them, leave them around the house and every so often, say, 'You're not ready to read this yet.'"
- Judy Blue

Quote of the Day

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

- C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Quote of the Day

"Anxiety is a temptation in itself and also the source from and by which other temptations come. Therefore, above all else, calm and compose your mind. Gently and quietly pursue your aim."

- St. Francis de Sales

Quote of the Day

"Extremists have shown what frightens them most: a girl with a book."

- Malala Yousafzai

Quote of the Day

"In March the wind

blows down the door

and spills my soup

upon the floor.

It laps it up

and roars for more.

Blowing once

blowing twice

blowing chicken soup 

with rice."

- Maurice Sendak, Chicken Soup with Rice

Quote of the Day

"Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us...Say yes to your life."

- Nancy Davis Reagan, Smith '43

Quote of the Day

"You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Quote of the Day

"Look past your thoughts so you may drink the pure nectar of this moment."

- Rumi

Quote of the Day

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

Quote of the Day

"Never get tired of doing little things for others. Sometimes those little things occupy the biggest part of their hearts."
- St. Therese of Lisieux

Quote of the Day

"A year from now we'll all be gone
All our friends will move away
And they're goin' to better places
But our friends will be gone away"
- The Head and the Heart, "Rivers and Roads"