I would like to hold your hand as it holds this green leaf, yellowed, that fell early from its tree, this Autumn. And I would like to imagine that it feels your careful care, for your eyes are warmed by your heart, and I would let you sadly nestle into me as a bird folds … Continue reading Quote for Today: Waylon Lewis
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Quote for Today: Maria Lehtman
If only our words would light up the hearts of others - like the sun awakening spring trees and flowers. We might not worry about the evening shadows any longer. ―Maria Lehtman, The Dew Drops New Morning, Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park, MO, 2017, Katherine McDaniel
Quote for Today: Franz Kafka
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we … Continue reading Quote for Today: Franz Kafka
Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which I saw in dreams. My feet stepped like theirs over the floorboards and the flagstones, but my heart was far away, even if it beat … Continue reading Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
Quote for Today: C. JoyBell C.
Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are … Continue reading Quote for Today: C. JoyBell C.
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all. ―Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the … Continue reading Quote for Today: Nathaniel Hawthorne
