Quote for Today: Rick Bass
How we fall into grace. You can’t work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. ―Rick Bass, Colter: The True Story of …
Quote for Today: Annie Dillard
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a …
Quote for Today: Jennifer Rodewald
Sometimes it’s easier to give compassion to those whose troubles fell upon them undeserved. But those who’ve, from our perspective, tangled themselves up all on their own—they need compassion every …
Quote for Today: Charlotte Eriksson
Where are our heroes? Where are our role models? Why are we leaving youth behind and laughing at the ones who are still there? Why not help each other out …
Quote for Today: Simone Weil
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually …
Quote for Today: Anne Lamott
It is unearned love–the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It’s the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are …
Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
A child’s pleasure in listening to stories lies partly in waiting for things he expects to be repeated: situations, phrases, formulas. Just as in poems and songs the rhymes …
Quote for Today: Patti Smith
When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. “I can’t do this,” I said. “I don’t …
Quote for Today: Paul Bowles
There are mornings when, from the first ray of light seized upon by the eye, and the first simple sounds that get inside the head, the heart is convinced …
Quote for Today: John O’Donohue
When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy; where …