I thought home needed to be tall and luminous, a glowing building with a luxurious setting. Status. What I failed to understand is home is not where I place my head down at night or the color of my furniture. Home is the people I surrounded myself with, the ones I break bread with. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Lilliam Rivera
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Quote for Today: Indu Muralidharan
I felt part of a group for the first time in my life. Not a family, just a group of people who liked being together, who sat as we did, leaning towards each other, leaving just the right amount of space in between, whose thoughts and words flowed easily and naturally, whose voices and accents … Continue reading Quote for Today: Indu Muralidharan
Quote for Today: W. Somerset Maugham
The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. … Continue reading Quote for Today: W. Somerset Maugham
Quote for Today: Zack Love
Every human relationship begins with a coincidence. Even the most fundamental relationship - that of parent and child - begins entirely with a coincidence. The child is produced by whatever serendipity brought its parents together, and the fact that the child was born to its particular parents instead of to another couple is pure happenstance. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Zack Love
Quote for Today: Bessel van der Kolk
Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives. Numerous studies of disaster response around the globe have shown that social support is the most powerful protection against becoming overwhelmed by stress and trauma. Social support is … Continue reading Quote for Today: Bessel van der Kolk
Quote for Today: Deb Caletti
Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn't, family that wasn't family but was, halves becoming whole, wholes splitting into two; it was possible to lack whole, honest love and connection from … Continue reading Quote for Today: Deb Caletti
Quote for Today: Marc Chagall
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. -Marc Chagall Image: Shaded Colour Wheel, Moses Harris (1731-1785)
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: Donna Tartt
We looked at each other and just laughed; everything was hysterically funny, even the playground slide was smiling at us, and at some point, deep in the night, when we were swinging on the jungle gym and showers of sparks were flying out of our mouths, I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and … Continue reading Quote for Today: Donna Tartt