A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; … Continue reading Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
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Quote for Today: Annie Dillard
The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is the object of vision, and what I see before me at any given second is a full field of color patches scattered just so. The configuration will never be repeated. Living is moving; time is a live … Continue reading Quote for Today: Annie Dillard
Quote for Today: John Milton
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. --John Milton Public Domain Image via PxHere
Quote for Today: James Baldwin
Some moments in a life, and they needn't be very long or seem very important, can make up for so much in that life; can redeem, justify, that pain, that bewilderment, with which one lives, and invest one with the courage not only to endure it, but to profit from it; some moments teach one … Continue reading Quote for Today: James Baldwin
Quote for Today: Regina Spektor
As soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, in that moment, you forget how it was and it's this new way. And then when you make a record, even those ideas that you … Continue reading Quote for Today: Regina Spektor
Quote for Today: Orhan Pamuk
In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe that they are living that golden instant "now," even having lived such a moment before, but whatever they say, in one part of their hearts … Continue reading Quote for Today: Orhan Pamuk
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing. ―Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart ANDE-2 Spheres … Continue reading Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
