There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does … Continue reading Quote for Today: C.S. Lewis
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Quote for Today: Courtney Cole
But the Phoenix is not remarkable for its feathers or flames. It is most revered for its ability to climb from its own funeral pyre, from the very ashes of its old charred body, as a brand new life ready to live again once more. Life after life, it goes through this cycle. It absorbs … Continue reading Quote for Today: Courtney Cole
Quote for Today: Isaac Bashevis Singer
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. --Isaac Bashevis Singer Cloudy Sunset over Rich Mountain © Katherine McDaniel, 2017
Quote for Today: Mary Elizabeth Frye
Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there; I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow, I am the sun on ripened grain, I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning's hush I am the swift uplifting … Continue reading Quote for Today: Mary Elizabeth Frye
Quote for Today: Rainer Maria Rilke
But listen to the breath, the unbroken message that creates itself from the silence. It rushes towards you now, from those youthfully dead. Whenever you entered, didn’t their fate speak to you, quietly, in churches in Naples or Rome? Or else an inscription exaltedly impressed itself on you, as lately the tablet in Santa … Continue reading Quote for Today: Rainer Maria Rilke
Quote for Today: Farid ud Din ‘Attar
You think your monarch's palace of more worth Than Him who fashioned it and all the earth. The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea, Of which your paradise is but a drop. This ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? … Continue reading Quote for Today: Farid ud Din ‘Attar
Quote for Today: Ray Bradbury
Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of Time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action? ―Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked … Continue reading Quote for Today: Ray Bradbury
