Quote of the Day

“Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’t look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.”
- Saint Catherine of Siena

Quote of the Day

"Traveling from season to season
Listening to weary hearts beating
And I'm tired and glad to have reason
To turn on back and keep on keeping"
- Falls, "Summer"

Quote of the Day

"And as time goes on and on I can feel my heart growing colder and colder
But then I see your face in the crowd, I think
How could I be starting over?"
- Jukebox the Ghost, "Girl"

Quote of the Day

"It feels like starting over every time
No matter what you say or choose you never get it right
But so far what I’ve learned is that it doesn’t hurt to try,
So till it does I’ll do my best tonight"
- Rain Collectors, "Brothers, Sisters, Lovers, Etc."

Quote of the Day

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."
- Sylvia Plath

Quote of the Day

"Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure."
- Pope Saint John Paul II

Quote of the Day

"The new day dawns,
And I am practicing my purpose once again."
- Gabe Dixon, "All Will Be Well"

Quote of the Day

"So how, if empathy requires perspective-taking -- how do we take the perspective of other people if the lens that we see the world through is soldered to us? The answer is you believe people's stories. You believe people's experiences as they tell them to you."
- Brené Brown

Quote of the Day

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
- Elbert Hubbard

Quote of the Day

"There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away,
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry -
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll -
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul."
- Emily Dickinson

Quote of the Day

"We're off like a pack of turtles."
- Nicola

Quote of the Day

"Husbands should be like Kleenex. Soft, strong, and disposable."
- Mrs. White, Clue

Quote of the Day

"Assist me, some extemporaneous god of rhyme, for I am sure I shall turn some sonnet.
Devise, wit: write, pen, for I am for whole volumes in folio."
- Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

Quote of the Day

“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness… Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”
- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Quote of the Day

"Listen, I will tell you a mystery!"
- 1 Corinthians 15:51 (NRSV)

Quote of the Day

"Americans. They can even vulgarize ice cream."
- Lady Hester, Tea with Mussolini

Quote of the Day

"Say my name
Spill it out like a drink you should have skipped"
- Tove Styrke, "Say My Name"

Quote of the Day

"Freedom means knowing how to reflect on what we do -- knowing how to evaluate -- which are the behaviors that make us grow. It means always choosing the good."
- Pope Francis

Quote of the Day

"All this time, I’d thought that our story was just that: our story. But it turns out you had your own story, and I had mine. Our stories might have overlapped for a while -- long enough that they even looked like the same story. But they were different.”
- Ali Benjamin

Quote of the Day

"One trip to the wilderness convinced me that I was not the outdoors type. In fact, the mosquitoes, heat, and warm Kool-Aid were enough to make me call my mother and tell her I wanted to go home. My parents picked me up, and to this day I've never tried camping again."
- Condoleezza Rice, Extraordinary, Ordinary People

Quote of the Day

"Look! I'm running away with my imagination."
- Ruth Krauss, Open House for Butterflies

Quote of the Day

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was just beginning over again with the summer."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Quote of the Day

"One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by."
- Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

Quote of the Day

"Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy."
- Deborah Day

Quote of the Day

"Things take the time they take.
Don't worry.
How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?"
- Mary Oliver

Quote of the Day

"I encourage you to take care of yourself. Love yourself, because only people who love themselves have enough love to give to the rest of the world."
- Oprah Winfrey (via)

Quote of the Day

"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."
- John Green

Quote of the Day

"Your academic training is useless in the face of children. You will explain why we do not put blueberries in orifices other than our mouths. You will field impossible requests from tiny dictators and weave magic for tyrants with attention deficit. You will be dazed by toddlerian twists of logic and tripped up by twisty teen nihilism."
- Lisa Renee, "Kids" (via)

Quote of the Day

"Things could be different but I don't know how"
- Langhorne Slim, "Changes"

Quote of the Day

"Sitting in the backseat on a Saturday night
Places racing past me spitting halogen light
I wish that you would ask me if I’m feeling alright
The shadows you were casting nearly swallowed the night"
- Bad Bad Hats, "Midway"

Quote of the Day

"Dear Lord, I have swept and I have washed but
still nothing is as shining as it should be
for you."
- Mary Oliver, "Making the House Ready for the Lord" (via)

Quote of the Day

"What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience."
- Saint Francis de Sales

Quote of the Day

"Two people who currently live together are about to attend church, have a party, go on a short holiday, then carry on living together."
- Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock 3.02

Quote of the Day

"you came to have distrust for happiness
and an envy of unbroken hearts"
- Cicada Rhythm, "The Keeper"

Quote of the Day

"And all the bad news that can fit jumps in my ear
And does insist that these things always end like this"
- Ezra Bell, "Pick a Place and Read"

Quote of the Day

"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm...in the real world all rest on perseverance."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quote of the Day

"God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity and resurrecting us from the graves we dig for ourselves through our violence, our lies, our selfishness, our arrogance, and our addictions. And God keeps loving us back to life over and over."
- Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber

Quote of the Day

"Here you come again
Just when I've begun to get myself together
You waltz right in the door
Just like you've done before
And wrap my heart 'round your little finger"
- Dolly Parton, "Here You Come Again"

Quote of the Day

"You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed.  You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life.  You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them."
- Iyanla Vanzant

Quote of the Day

"Nothing will stop you from being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake."
- John Cleese

Quote of the Day

"There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book."
- Philip Pullman

Quote of the Day

"With a new awareness, both painful and humorous, I begin to understand why the saints were rarely married women."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Quote of the Day

"Keep the drama for your adult Quidditch league."
- Frankie, Grace and Frankie 3.08

Quote of the Day

"Without community there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do no exist."
- Audre Lorde

Quote of the Day

"Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack."
- Dr. Seuss

Quote of the Day

"Oh, heavy my eyes,
Lord, I am weary now; 
I try hard to lay me down,
I can't stay, something's keeping me awake
Moving with your heavy grace, I become the tidal wave,
Bone deep."
- Birds of Bellwoods, "Come Home"

Quote of the Day

"Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy."
- Pope Francis

Quote of the Day

"Let your words be anything but empty" 
- Sara Bareilles, "Brave"

Quote of the Day

"Oh sweet, sweet, dark haired man
Oh please, please take my hand
You can lead me, lead me, lead me, lead me on"
- Joan Shelley, "Sweet Dark-Haired Man"

Quote of the Day

“In an attempt to reconcile the two worlds from which Leopolda drew spiritual sustenance, the young novice mistakenly, but with a fervent heart and pure intentions, attempted to graft new branches into the tree of Catholic tradition.”
-Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

Quote of the Day

"Women, if you equip them with the power and the tools, are able to uplift entire communities."
- Darlene Gillard Jones

Quote of the Day

"I solve this puzzle, but tumble through Hell
These words are fractions when I needed primes"
- They Might Be Giants, "Hate the Villanelle

Quote of the Day

"We are afforded the freedom of speech but there is no freedom from the consequences of what we say."
- Roxane Gay (via)

Quote of the Day

"The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Quote of the Day

"She's been on her phone all day, like a grandpa who missed a package."
- Nick, New Girl 6.15

Quote of the Day

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."
- William Faulkner

Quote of the Day

"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."
- Rachel Carson 

Quote of the Day

"This is what happens when the government becomes a cabaret."
- I.J.

Quote of the Day

“All these things would remain while she did not. How strange that her absence would have no effect whatsoever on the things of this world. Proving that fondly were not just things, she thought, proving that they were spirit surrounded by a shell of substance, just like her.”
-Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

Quote of the Day

"You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames."
- Lloyd Jones

Quote of the Day

"Instead of raising walls, we need to be building bridges."

- Pope Francis

Quote of the Day

"Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon."

- Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Quote of the Day

"Every person we will ever meet has infinite worth."

- Dr. Kent Hoffman

(via https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S1e2T0mxmCY)

Quote of the Day

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

Quote of the Day

"So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age — the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night — are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless."

- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Quote of the Day

"I hate men who are afraid of women's strength."

- Anaïs Nin

Quote of the Day

“He watched their faces for recognition of the finality of the moment, but there was nothing there but a certainty that they had rescued what was necessary in order to keep living.”

- Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

Quote of the Day

"[He] was one of those men who always looked a bit startled to find that women have voices."

- Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

Quote of the Day

"We are often tired and imbalanced not because we are doing too much, but because we are doing too little of what is real and meaningful."

- Marianne Williamson

Quote of the Day

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quote of the Day

"It was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere."

- Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

Quote of the Day

"The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt."

- Rebecca Solnit

Quote of the Day

"Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways."

- Glennon Doyle Melton

Quote of the Day

“Thus was her salvation composed of the very great and the very small. The vast comfort of a God who comforted her in a language other than her own. The bread of life. The gold orange of washed carrots and the taste of salt.”

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

Quote of the Day

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

Quote of the Day

"My God, Annie, what kind of labyrinth have you created?! Certainly not the magic kind with puppets and macho rock stars."

- Dean Pelton, Community 5.06

Quote of the Day

"This is my first snow at Smith. It is like any other snow, but from a different window, and there lies the singular charm of it."

- Sylvia Plath

Quote of the Day

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

- Mary Oliver

Quote of the Day

"Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!"

- Pope Francis

Quote of the Day

"If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies."

- Jon Stewart

Quote of the Day

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald 

Quote of the Day

"Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet."

- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Quote of the Day

"The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we've been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be here."

- Anne Lamott