When you are so full of sorrow that you can't walk, can't cry anymore, think about the green foliage that sparkles after the rain. When the daylight exhausts you, when you hope a final night will cover the world, think about the awakening of a young child. --attributed to Omar Khayyam Image: Grail by … Continue reading Quote for Today: Omar Khayyam
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Quote for Today: Maurice Maeterlinck
There needs be but so little to encourage beauty in our soul; so little to awaken the slumbering angels; or perhaps is there no need of awakening --- it is enough that we lull them not to sleep. It requires more effort to fall, perhaps, than to rise. Can we, without putting constraint upon ourselves, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Maurice Maeterlinck
Quote for Today: Charlotte Eriksson
Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see. We walk in our sleep … Continue reading Quote for Today: Charlotte Eriksson
Quote for Today: William Shakespeare
Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon. ―Puck, A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare
Quote for Today: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born. ―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras
Quote for Today: Mark Helprin
Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Mark Helprin
Quote for Today: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
