Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will … Continue reading Quote for Today: Robert McNair Price
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Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us — the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small — to flourish. (Or rather, it was we who were … Continue reading Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
Quote for Today: Albert Einstein
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. -Albert Einstein Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: Ellen Hopkins
Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. ―Ellen Hopkins, "Manifesto" Image © Quinn Dombrowski with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Akira Kurosawa
People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. They may be smart, but most don't understand the heart of nature. They only invent things that, in the end, make people unhappy. Yet … Continue reading Quote for Today: Akira Kurosawa
Quote for Today: David Rakoff
Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask … Continue reading Quote for Today: David Rakoff
Quote for Today: Ray Bradbury
It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing … Continue reading Quote for Today: Ray Bradbury
