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