Quote for Today: William Faulkner
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks …
Quote for Today:Fernando Pessoa
Our problem isn’t that we’re individualists. It’s that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we …
Quote for Today: Gail Godwin
There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew …
Quote for Today: Vera Nazarian
We are all glorified motion sensors. Some things only become visible to us when they undergo change. We take for granted all the constant, fixed things, and eventually stop paying …
Quote for Today: John Muir
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out …
Quote for Today: Terry Tempest Williams
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, …
Quote for Today: Alan Watts
Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is, in other words, no such thing as time in the natural world – the world of stars and …
Quote for Today: Jean-Paul Sartre
For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, only notes, a myriad of tiny jolts. They know no rest, an inflexible order gives birth to them and …
Quote for Today: Leonora Carrington
We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves. —Leonora Carrington