Quote for Today: Leo Tolstoy
A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a physical wound. And once a deep wound …
Quote for Today: Francis Weller
Imagine the feeling of relief that would flood our whole being if we knew that when we were in the grip of sorrow or illness, our village would respond to …
Quote for Today: Judith Lewis Herman
Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who …
Quote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. …
Quote for Today: Chris Cleave
…and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you …
Quote for Today: Rollo May
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men… One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a …
Quote for Today: Mary Renault
You mustn’t get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one’s a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives …
Quote for Today: Jean Baudrillard
The original void is amorphous, sterile, homogeneous, symmetrical. It is perfect. No reality can emerge there. It is absolute illusion. This symmetry has to be broken if a law-governed materiality …
Quote for Today: John Ruskin
And in all things that live there are certain irregularities and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same …
Quote for Today: Neal Shusterman
I always hear people talk about ‘dysfunctional families.’ It annoys me, because it makes you think that somewhere there’s this magical family where everyone gets along, and no …