Quote for Today: Steven Millhauser
After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world of stern and ludicrous adults. We were bored, we were restless, we longed …
Quote for Today: Gustave Flaubert
At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that’s it. Almost nothing. Nothing …
Quote for Today: Sylvia Plath
But I must get back into the world of my creative mind: otherwise, in the world of pies & shin beef, I die. The great vampire cook extracts the nourishment …
Quote for Today: Franklin Lushington
There is no quicker way of growing old than undue indulgence in regular habits. Indeed it seems probable that the reason why so many people die sooner than they should …
Quote for Today: Mehmet Murat İldan
If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it …
Quote for Today: Charlotte Eriksson
You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the window or lock on the door, and you’re the house where …
Building Creative Resilience: Strategies for Cultivating Enchantment
Adversity and boredom can strip away our joy and creativity. Can a sense of enchantment improve our resilience? Boredom © Jae with CCLicense Have you ever felt as if you were …
Quote for Today: Sinclair Lewis
Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure …
Quote for Today: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“My life is very monotonous,” the fox said. “I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, …