Quote for Today: Zsuzsanna Budapest
The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside us, the collective unconscious, the many lives, the …
Quote for Today: Kobayashi Issa
Arise from sleep, old cat, and with great yawns and stretching amble out for love —Kobayashi Issa Public Domain Image via GoodFreePhotos
Quote for Today: John Cage
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. ―John Cage Image: No Escape © Wes Peck with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Albert Einstein
The strange thing about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone. ―Albert …
Quote for Today: Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am just as cowardly as you. And do not …
Quote for Today: John Piper
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 …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I’m having, too, are all first-time feelings. If it were something I’d experienced …
Quote for Today: Alan Moore
The photograph is in my hand. It is the photograph of a man and a woman. They are at an amusement park, in 1959. In twelve seconds time, I drop …
Quote for Today: Philip K. Dick
Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man …
Quote for Today: Jonathan Franzen
And so–for the first time, it seemed–Pip had looked at her mother’s hands. The skin on the back of them wasn’t pink and opaque like her own skin. It was …