Quote for Today: Hope Jahren
After scientists broke open the coat of a lotus seed (Nelumbo nucifera) and coddled the embryo into growth, they kept the empty husk. When they radiocarbon-dated this discarded outer shell, …
Quote for Today: Nathan Filer
Some madness doesn’t act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it’ll simply sit in the corner without a …
Quote for Today: Kate Douglas Wiggin
The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard …
Quote for Today: Franklin Lushington
There is no quicker way of growing old than undue indulgence in regular habits. Indeed it seems probable that the reason why so many people die sooner than they should …
Quote for Today: Virginia Woolf
Habits gradually change the face of one’s life as time changes one’s physical face, and one does not know it. –Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three: 1925-1930 …
Quote for Today: Helen Macdonald
There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not …
Quote for Today: Michael Meade
The only choice once your world has been torn apart is to find your genius and live with that. ‘Normal’ is out of the question. The healing for veterans, or …
Quote for Today: Naomi Long Madgett
I wouldn’t coax the plant if I were you. Such watchful nursing may do it harm. Let the soil rest from so much digging And wait until it’s dry before …
Quote for Today: George Bernard Shaw
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements …
Quote for Today: Criss Jami
There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when …