Quote for Today: Madeleine George
Anyway, if you need your heroes to be perfect, you won’t have very many. Even Superman had his Kryptonite. I’d rather have my heroes be more like me: trying to …
Quote for Today: Frederick Buechner
Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day’s chalking. ―Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet …
Quote for Today: Desmond Tutu
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is …
Quote for Today: Avina Celeste
Everyone, at some point in their life, is going to make a mistake, in fact, many of you probably already have. Unfortunately, there is no fix for mistakes, no going …
Quote for Today: Harold Kushner
In the final analysis, the question of why bad things happen to good people translates itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how …
Quote for Today: Oli Anderson
The first step to empathy and compassion is realising the similarities between yourself and those that are suffering; the first step to forgiveness is realising that we’re all human and …
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. …
Quote for Today: Libba Bray
We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to …
Through The Eyes of Betrayer and Betrayed: Fractures
Is it possible to empathize with those who have made choices that inflict pain on themselves and those around them? These three poems, Fractures, were written in 2012 for an …