I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, toward life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it. ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent Image © Mark Goldberg with … Continue reading Quote for Today: Veronica Roth
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Quote for Today: E. L. Konigsburg
I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside of you. If you never take time out … Continue reading Quote for Today: E. L. Konigsburg
Quote for Today: Jim Morrison
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Jim Morrison
Quote for Today: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. ―Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers … Continue reading Quote for Today: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Quote for Today: Kamand Kojouri
We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice in the interpretation of a word. And each time they make one of these choices, they are taken further from the truth. But what we … Continue reading Quote for Today: Kamand Kojouri
Beloved’s Journey: Chapter 3, Welcome to the Inside
Synkroniciti presents the third Chapter of Beloved’s Journey, a serial novel. To read earlier chapters, please click here. Chapter 3, Welcome to the Inside “How do you know my name?” Veracity laughs--a peculiar dry sound, like sticks rubbing together. “It’s written on the soles of your shoes.” He winks, and his eyes twinkle with amusement. I drop heavily against … Continue reading Beloved’s Journey: Chapter 3, Welcome to the Inside
Quote for Today: Vera Nazarian
The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being. Inside out and outside in. These … Continue reading Quote for Today: Vera Nazarian
