It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Robert Goolrick
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Quote for Today: Mary Oliver
As for the body, it is solid and strong and curious and full of detail: it wants to polish itself; it wants to love another body; it is the only vessel in the world that can hold, in a mix of power and sweetness: words, song, gesture, passion, ideas, ingenuity, devotion, merriment, vanity, and virtue. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Mary Oliver
Quote for Today: J. M. Barrie
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. ―J.M. Barrie Image © amenclinics with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Vera Nazarian
If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant. Before it is too late, go out there and find someone who, in your opinion, believes, assumes, or considers certain … Continue reading Quote for Today: Vera Nazarian
Quote for Today: Peter Høeg
No person can open another person; all we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occurs. ―Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl Image: an act of kindness in the blizzard © Michael Krigsman with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Hermann Hesse
We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement. ―Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund Public Domain Image via … Continue reading Quote for Today: Hermann Hesse
Quote for Today: Leo Tolstoy
Levin had often noticed in discussion between the most intelligent people that after enormous efforts, and endless logical subtleties and talk, the disputants finally became aware that what they had been at such pains to prove to one another had long ago, from the beginning of the argument, been known to both, but that they … Continue reading Quote for Today: Leo Tolstoy
Quote for Today: Jean Lorrain
The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure - but I have never encountered them, and I am searching still for the profound and plaintive gazes in whose … Continue reading Quote for Today: Jean Lorrain
Quote for Today: Vera Nazarian
If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant. Before it is too late, go out there and find someone who, in your opinion, believes, assumes, or considers certain … Continue reading Quote for Today: Vera Nazarian