The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you … Continue reading Quote for Today: Eleanor Roosevelt
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Quote for Today: Bret Easton Ellis
A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after I say something about forms of anxiety. It's as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is … Continue reading Quote for Today: Bret Easton Ellis
Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd--The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create … Continue reading Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
Quote for Today: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which … Continue reading Quote for Today: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Quote for Today: Ingrid Bergman
I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible … Continue reading Quote for Today: Ingrid Bergman
Quote for Today: Pablo Casals
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper. --Pablo Casals
Quote for Today: Robert Heinlein
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. --Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
