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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Quote for Today: Zhuangzi
I’ve heard my teacher say, where there are machines, there are bound to be machine worries; where there are machine worries, there are bound to be machine hearts. With a …
Quote for Today: Suzy Kassem
SONG OF THE STAR I am nothing but Oxygen and hydrogen, A luminous sphere of plasma Held together by helium and gravity, And like a balloon I float on …
Through the Dream of a Child: Brent Bonacorso’s West of the Moon
There is pain and struggle in life that is universal. How can art help us to approach these things differently? Brent Bonacorso has directed videos for Elton John (Home Again) and Katy Perry …
Quote for Today: Pablo Casals
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper. —Pablo Casals
Quote for Today: Josh Billings
There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and …