This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go. ― from "The Waking", Theodore Roethke, The Collected Poems Image: Tightrope 1 © Tom a la Rue with CCLicense
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Quote for Today: Wally Lamb
“We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance. ―Wally Lamb, We Are Water Katherine McDaniel, Johnson's Shut-Ins, Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park, MO, 2016 … Continue reading Quote for Today: Wally Lamb
Quote for Today: Cecelia Ahern
Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying attention. ―Cecelia Ahern, A Place Called Here Image: Self Awareness © Guian Bolisay with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Vilayanur Ramachandran
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it. --Vilayanur Ramachandran Public Domain Image via … Continue reading Quote for Today: Vilayanur Ramachandran
Quote for Today: Ellen Hopkins
Empty is the perfect state of being. Nothing inside to anchor you. Nothing inside to chain you down, keep you from living your dreams. Empty, almost weightless, you are an eyelash afloat on a blink of breeze. You can rise above tension and worry, loosed from the grip of gravity. Adrift in thermal lift, you … Continue reading Quote for Today: Ellen Hopkins
Quote for Today: Onyi Anyado
Your comfort zone is not that comfortable. ―Onyi Anyado John Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781
Quote for Today: Lionel Shriver
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it. ―Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs Public Domain Image via Pexels.com
