We often hide our true selves from people around us. Perhaps our authenticity is actually what the world needs. To the upper class people who live in her elegant Parisian apartment building, Renée Michel is a simple concierge. They would never guess the secret that she guards every waking minute. It is a terrible weight … Continue reading Saved by Camellias: Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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Quote for Today: Scott Stabile
Share your gifts. Learn from the gifts of others. Stay open to whichever role — teacher and/or student — life is calling on you to play. And bring as much acceptance and love to each performance. When we walk through life as only a teacher, we miss out on learning from the world around us. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Scott Stabile
Quote for Today: Fred Rogers
People have said, "Don’t cry" to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is, "I’m too uncomfortable when you show your feelings. Don’t cry." I’d rather have them say, "Go ahead and cry. I’m here to be with you.” ―Fred Rogers Image: Walter Langley, Never Morning Wore to Evening but … Continue reading Quote for Today: Fred Rogers
Quote for Today: Katherine Dunn
Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them. ―Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
Quote for Today: Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache
I guess that sometimes it just takes a long walk through the darkness, a long walk through the darkest shadows and corners of your soul to realize that those are a part of you as well, that you've created through your experiences and thoughts those parts within yourself and as much as you can choose … Continue reading Quote for Today: Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache
Quote for Today: Paulo Coelho
I’m always a mystery to myself. If I knew in the first hours of the morning, what I’m going to do, what is going to happen, what attitude or decision should I take? I think my life would be deadly boring because, well, what makes life interesting is the unknown. It is the risks that … Continue reading Quote for Today: Paulo Coelho
Quote for Today: C. JoyBell C.
"They are angry with me, because I know what I am." Said the little eagle. "How do you know that they are angry with you?" "Because, they despise me for wanting to soar, they only want me to peck at the dirt, looking for ants, with them. But I can't do that. I don't have … Continue reading Quote for Today: C. JoyBell C.
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I'm having, too, are all first-time feelings. If it were something I'd experienced before, then I'd be able to understand it more clearly, but this is the first time, so I can't. For now all I can do … Continue reading Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
Quote for Today: Anaïs Nin
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a … Continue reading Quote for Today: Anaïs Nin
Quote for Today: Jess C. Scott
I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader … Continue reading Quote for Today: Jess C. Scott