Quote of the Day

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

- Simone Weil

Quote of the Day

"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

Quote of the Day

"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 

Quote of the Day

"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

Quote of the Day

"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