Revelations help us accept the things we need the most, expose the secrets we so desperately try to hide and illuminate the dangers all around us. But more than anything, revelations are windows into our true selves... of the good and the evil and those wavering somewhere in between. But they have the ultimate power … Continue reading Quote for Today: Mike Kelley
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Quote for Today: Jean Webster
I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of … Continue reading Quote for Today: Jean Webster
Quote for Today: Ann Brasco
We readily forget what we once knew as children: our flaws are not only natural but integral to our beings. They are interwoven into our soul’s DNA and yet we continually reject the crooked, wrinkled, mushy parts of our life rather than embrace them as the very essence of our beings. I once believed that … Continue reading Quote for Today: Ann Brasco
Quote for Today: Victoria Aveyard
The thing with heat is, no matter how cold you are, no matter how much you need warmth, it always, eventually, becomes too much. ―Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: Bell Hooks
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School … Continue reading Quote for Today: Bell Hooks
Quote for Today: Suzy Kassem
When gorillas smell danger, they run around and call out to the rest of the primates in the jungle to warn them something evil is coming. And when one of their own dies, they mourn for days while beating themselves up in sadness for failing to save that gorilla, even if the cause of … Continue reading Quote for Today: Suzy Kassem
Quote for Today: Bell Hooks
Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear–against alienation and separation. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Bell Hooks
