Quote for Today: Erich Maria Remarque
He wants me to tell him about the front; he is curious in a way that I find stupid and distressing; I no longer have any real contact with him. …
Quote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
And extremes—whether of dullness or fury—successfully prevent feeling. I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies—unconscious strategies—to keep those feelings away. We do a …
Quote for Today: Ursula K. LeGuin
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. —Ursula K. LeGuin Image by WikiImages from Pixabay
Quote for Today: Alexander Lowen
While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing its motility so that feeling …
Quote for Today: Malcolm Gladwell
In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill and he creates very ‘gifted’ improvisers. Bad …
Quote for Today: Ashim Shanker
It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own exploratory inclinations. So many learning environments in the …
Quote for Today: Wendell Berry
Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin. It uses neither tool nor material that it does not respect and …
Quote for Today: Dag Hammarskjöld
In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes …
Quote for Today: Robin McKinley
The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You …
Quote for Today: Mary Oliver
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and …