Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
I love going out of my way, beyond what I know, and finding my way back a few extra miles, by another trail, with a compass that argues with the …
Quote for Today: André Gide
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ―André Gide
Quote for Today: Anna Kamieńska
Tell me what’s the difference between hope and waiting because my heart doesn’t know It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting It constantly gets lost in the fog …
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in …
Quote for Today: Thích Nhất Hạnh
I have lost my smile, but don’t worry. The dandelion has it. ―Thích Nhất Hạnh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Quote for Today: Alice Steinbach
I suspected, however, that I wasn’t homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn’t find: the past and all the …
Quote for Today: Rumer Godden
It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot ‘do’; they can only be done by; children …
Quote for Today: Sherman Alexie
Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read?… …
Quote for Today: Peter Ackroyd
No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we …