Quote of the Day

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Quote of the Day

“So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon.”
- Jan Richardson

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"She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

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“It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.”
― David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

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“We have to remember that work is not prayer. It is at best an extension of prayer. We fool ourselves if we argue that we don’t have to pray because we work so hard or our work is so good. Those who work without prayer -- no matter how good the work, no matter how sincere the minister -- soon dry up inside. They have nothing left to give. Or, the work fails and they have no faith to sustain them, no perspective to encourage them. More important, real prayer makes us more effective people because real prayer changes us. Prayer delivers us from our own internal oppressions, the burdens we put on ourselves, the bitterness we carry, because it enables the inbreaking of God in our lives.”
- Joan Chittister, OSB

Quote of the Day

“I learned that life in the immediate aftermath of a loss feels perverse. You understand that control is an illusion and that the illusion is gone forever. Terror takes over. If this can happen, anything can, and if this did, anything will.”
- Helen Chernikoff, Modern Loss

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

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"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

"Suddenly this defeat.

This rain.

The blues gone gray

And the browns gone gray

And yellow

A terrible amber.

In the cold streets

Your warm body.

In whatever room

Your warm body.

Among all the people

Your absence

The people who are always

Not you.

I have been easy with trees

Too long.

Too familiar with mountains.

Joy has been a habit.

Now

Suddenly

This rain."

― Jack Gilbert

Quote of the Day

"A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt."

― Rachel Sontag

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"I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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"What's the greatest lesson a woman should learn? That since day one, she's already had everything she needs within herself. It's the world that convinced her she did not."
- Rupi Kaur

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"I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again."
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Quote of the Day

"The human body is used to operating under the weight of earth's atmosphere, which cradles us at all times like a planet-sized anti-anxiety blanket."
- Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

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"They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Quote of the Day

"The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good."
- W.H. Auden, Another Time

Quote of the Day

"Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self."
- Eleanor Brownn

Quote of the Day

"And all at once, summer collapsed into fall."
- Oscar Wilde

Quote of the Day

"It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it."

- Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

Quote of the Day

"We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination."
- C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Quote of the Day

"Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place."
- Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

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"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace."
- Eugene O'Neill

Quote of the Day

"Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self."
- Eleanor Brownn

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"This road never looked so lonely
This house doesn't burn down slowly
To ashes, to ashes"
- Imagine Dragons, "It's Time"

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"When we agreed to go apple picking together, we made a tacit agreement to take flattering fall photos of each other."
- AE

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"We all have our stories, some are sad to remember
Some are maddening reminders of who we once were before"
- Girlyman, "St. Augustine"

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"The library assistant, who was helpful and diligent, bordering on liturgical, handed me the first volume, then the third, wincing that the second volume 'burned up in a fire.' Which happened nearly two hundred years ago, but this true-blue young archivist is still in mourning."
- Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates

Quote of the Day

"I am at home among the trees."
- J.R.R. Tolkien

Quote of the Day

"'What about the God?' I asked. 'You can't see him.'
Joshua stopped halfway down the hill and held his arms out to the shining, aquamarine sea. 'You can't?'"
- Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Quote of the Day

"And I will be right next you
Engine drivers headed north to Pleasant Street
Keep me in your heart for a while
These wheels keep turning but they're running out of steam"
- Warren Zevon, "Keep Me in Your Heart"

Quote of the Day

"To be given a name is an act of intimacy as powerful as any act of love...To name is to love. To be named is to be loved."
- Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water

Quote of the Day

"One last word of farewell, Dear Master and Mistress. Whenever you visit my grave, say to yourselves with regret but also with happiness in your hearts at the remembrance of my long happy life with you: 'Here lies one who loved us and whom we loved.' No matter how deep my sleep I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail."
- Eugene O'Neill

Quote of the Day

"Live in such a way that if your children are ever asked for the definitions of kindness, integrity, and loyalty, they’ll answer 'my parents.'"
- Ali B. Moe

Quote of the Day

"Because we made you
My darling
With the love in each of our hearts
We were a family, my darling
Right from the start"
- Wilco, "My Darling"

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

"Smiles and laughter and pleasant times
There's love in the world but it's hard to find
I'm so glad I found you -- I'd just like to extend
An invitation to the festival of friends."
- Bruce Cockburn, "Festival of Friends"

Quote of the Day

"Shadows are falling and I'm running out of breath
Keep me in your heart for a while
If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less
Keep me in your heart for a while"
- Warren Zevon, "Keep Me in Your Heart"

Quote of the Day

"Kurt altered my reading life by pointing out if was perfectly OK to buy books you may not read right away. He said he thought about himself as building a reference library. Me too!!"
- DA

Quote of the Day

"No longer walking through rooms, I shall be gone and not gone."
- Gwendolyn Brooks

Quote of the Day

"You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved."
- Ansel Adams

Quote of the Day

"I've shared my life with you, brother
Since I recall, you've been my friend"
- Lord Huron, "Brother"

Quote of the Day

"Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader's eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin."
- Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

Quote of the Day

"You are a sturdy soul." 
- NM

Quote of the Day

"'I can't do this, Sam.'

'I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo; the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end... because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was, when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going... because they were holding on to something.'"
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

Quote of the Day

"That sounds terrible...I want to watch it twice."
- Troy, Community 3.10

Quote of the Day

"Bill Shakespeare was a wonderful poet. But Burt Bacharach he ain't."
- Dr. Desmond Forest Oates, Get Over It

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"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."
- Frida Kahlo

Quote of the Day

"God did not call me to be successful. He called me to be faithful."
- St. Teresa of Calcutta

Quote of the Day

"To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community."
- R. David Lankes

Quote of the Day

"Time is tricky. You have months, even years, when nothing changes a speck, when you don't go anywhere or do anything or think one new thought. And then you can get hit with a day, or an hour, or a half a second when so much happens it's almost like you got born all over again into some brand-new person you for damn sure never expected to meet."
- E. R. Frank

Quote of the Day

"I am writing because sometimes we are closer to the truth in our vulnerabilities than in our safe certainties."
- Rachel Held Evans

Quote of the Day

"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you."
- Frida Kahlo

Quote of the Day

"Faithful friends are a sturdy shelter; whoever finds one finds a treasure."

-Sirach 6:14

Quote of the Day

"The cure for anything is saltwater: sweat, tears, or the sea."
- Isak Dinesen

Quote of the Day

"Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship."
- Dorothy Parker

Quote of the Day

"Would you like an adventure now, or shall we have our tea first?"
- J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Quote of the Day

"When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind."
- C.S. Lewis

Quote of the Day

"There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship."
- Lois Lowry, The Giver

Quote of the Day

"When you start a friendship, you realise that other people don’t principally want to know your good news, so much as gain an insight into what troubles and worries you, so that they can in turn feel less lonely with the pains of their own hearts. You become a better friend because you see that what friendship is really about is a sharing of vulnerability."
- The Book of Life (via)

Quote of the Day

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
- Maya Angelou

Quote of the Day

"You are living an exciting new chapter in the book on tape of your life."
- Moira Rose, Schitt's Creek 4.07

Quote of the Day

"He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself. Lose yourself on the cross, and you will find yourself entirely."
- St. Catherine of Siena

Quote of the Day

"Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Imagine if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary."
- Rachel Held Evans

Quote of the Day

"You pick a partner, you pick a story. What story do you want to write? And do you have enough freedom to choose the story that you want to write? Write often, and edit well."
- Esther Perel

Quote of the Day

"The body knows. When your heart sinks. When you feel sick to your gut. When something blossoms in your soul. Listen to it."
- Cheryl Strayed

Quote of the Day

"What is it you want to change?
Your hair, your face your body?
Why?
For God is in love with all these things
and He might weep when they are gone."
- St. Catherine of Siena

Quote of the Day

"The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name."
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters

Quote of the Day

"I love Trader Joe's so much. They're so nice there. It is an oasis of sweetness in a desert of cruel grocery stores...but at Trader Joe's, they're so nice to each other. That's quite clear right away. They all do each other's jobs. It's communist, clearly. But not gray wool coats Soviet Communism...I would categorize the communism at Trader Joe's as...Narnian? Obviously during the reign of Aslan the lion."
- Gary Gulman, "Ode to Trader Joe's" (via)

Quote of the Day

"I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots."
- Andrea Koehle Jones

Quote of the Day

"Time to break open the Merlot."
- CE

Quote of the Day

"I tell my students, When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game." 
- Toni Morrison

Quote of the Day

"Now so much I know that things just don't grow
If you don't bless them with your patience
And I've been there before I held up the door
For every stranger with a promise"
- First Aid Kit, "Emmylou"

Quote of the Day

"Let July be July.
Let August be August."
- Morgan Harper Nichols

Quote of the Day

"Language is a fundamental part of the human experience. The words we use to describe our lives become indelible marks of our identity, of who we are and where we come from."
- Josh Katz, Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide

Quote of the Day

"She broke open the barriers of my limited (even if good) vision and expectations for how love would be shared that afternoon. She reminded me that, as J.B. Phillips writes, '[My] God is too small.'"
- Natalie Helfrick (via)

Quote of the Day

"Well excuse me, for having enormous flaws that I don't work on!"
- Homer Simpson, The Simpsons 18.07

Quote of the Day

"The pictures carry us into the garden and ask us to name things as if for the first time."
- Claudia Zoe Bedrick (via)

Quote of the Day

"This is so bad, it's gone past good and back to bad again."
- Enid, Ghost World

Quote of the Day

"Perhaps he didn’t have to profess his love every time someone came around and made him feel less unhappy than he had been previously. Perhaps we could just walk away from this and save himself the further complication of his life."
- Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

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"That's one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they'll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons."
- Dave Grohl

Quote of the Day

"We are to be Christ's hands and feet and voice, in the face of the great spiritual, moral, and material poverties of our time."
- LPB

Quote of the Day

"You have given so much to this, and I just hope you know that even here, your work is not in vain. It might take a little longer to arrive where you want to be, but you are still free to take this day by day. Even when the world seems to be moving on without you. Even when you are weary of waiting. Even when you are having to watch others reach the same exact heights you were reaching for, you are not a failure. You are not behind. You will still arrive where you need to be in time. Your story is just going to look a little different. Yes, it is going to look a little different. You are going to look back on this season and realize, there is no way you could have predicted these outcomes. But you will rise, anyway. You will find that even when things did not go according to plan, it did not hinder you fro traveling the course. All along, you were being prepared for something so much greater than you. And no matter the additional time it took, it was not too late for you."
- Morgan Harper Nichols 

Quote of the Day

"Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference."
- Frederick Douglass

Quote of the Day

"Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of the chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write."
- Natalie Goldberg

Quote of the Day

"I have that exact same platitude-a-day calendar at home. It's how I know beauty comes from within."
- Veronica, Veronica Mars 1.12

Quote of the Day

"If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog."
- Harry S. Truman

Quote of the Day

"Now would be a perfect time for you to trot out your old pal Aquinas."
- Elizabeth, Madam Secretary 5.15

Quote of the Day

"There is really no such thing as the 'voiceless.' There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard."
- Arundhati Roy

Quote of the Day

"It must not be forgotten that the basic law of children's creativity is that its value lies not in its results, not in the product of creation, but in the process itself. It is not important what children create, but that they do create, that they exercise and implement their creative imagination."
- Lev Vygotsky

Quote of the Day

"What’s your policy on posting cute Instagram pictures of the two of us? For the record, I’m against it...unless I look really cute in the photo. In which case, hey girl hey! Look at how hot we are!!!"
- Ryan O'Connell, Thought Catalog (via)

Quote of the Day

“You know that tired old joke about hearing nuns’ confessions, like getting stoned to death with popcorn? Not the case, not here. My sisters are robust women, full of juice.”
-Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

Quote of the Day

"I have a car that has a navigation unit that can be set to 'tacos.'"
- Gus, Psych 8.10

Quote of the Day

"Don't want to go to bed

Don't want to close my eyes

Don't want to rest my head

And end this summer night"

- Meaghan Smith, "5 More Minutes"

Quote of the Day

"Each life is different, unique, worthy of being recognized -- another stitch in the bright tapestry of stories."
- Rafael Lopez (via)

Quote of the Day

"You know your trail of discarded boyfriends is making it very difficult to get anything done in this world."

- Johnny Rose, Schitt’s Creek 2.08

Quote of the Day

"Monday, Monday, can't trust that day
Monday, Monday, sometimes it just turns out that way"
- The Mamas & The Papas, "Monday, Monday"

Quote of the Day

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever."
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Quote of the Day

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
- Sylvia Plath