"It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault." "You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble … Continue reading Quote for Today: Norton Juster
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Quote for Today: A.A. Milne
By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was … Continue reading Quote for Today: A.A. Milne
Quote for Today: Joan Halifax
Everybody has a geography that can be used for change. That is why we travel to far off places. Whether we know it or not we need to renew ourselves in territories that are fresh and wild. We need to come home through the body of alien lands. ―Joan Halifax, The Fruitful Darkness Public Domain … Continue reading Quote for Today: Joan Halifax
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a burning and a will overpowering to journey outward and outward after the earliest risen star. ―John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry … Continue reading Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
Quote for Today: George Whitman
I may disappear leaving behind me no worldly possessions - just a few old socks and love letters, and my windows overlooking Notre-Dame for all of you to enjoy, and my little rag and bone shop of the heart whose motto is "Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise." I may … Continue reading Quote for Today: George Whitman
Quote for Today: Nick Hornby
All that night he thought like boomerangs fly: an idea would shoot way off into the distance, all the way to a caravan in Hollywood and, for a moment, when he had got as far away from school and reality as it was possible to go, he was reasonably happy; then it would begin the … Continue reading Quote for Today: Nick Hornby
Quote for Today: Marilynne Robinson
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes are worn and hassocks are sat upon and finally everything is left where it was and the spirit passes on, just as the wind in the orchard picks up the … Continue reading Quote for Today: Marilynne Robinson
