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"