Quote for Today: Helen Macdonald
There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not …
There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not …
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not …
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. ―T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, …
If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from …
Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday. ―Rumi
I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like …
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow …
I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here? Let’s think of reverence …
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, the longing reveals …
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that …
