Quote for Today: Loren Eiseley
We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests or hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played …
Quote for Today: Regina Spektor
As soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it’s like a moment where, …
Quote for Today: Julia Cameron
At root, a pearl is a ‘disturbance’ a beauty caused by something that isn’t supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of …
Quote for Today: Charlotte Eriksson
It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I don’t have to do anything but trust the …
Quote for Today: Buckminster Fuller
I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep …
Quote for Today: Alan Watts
We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that “I myself” is a …
Quote for Today: Max Ehrmann
To be without desire is to be content. But contentment is not happiness. And in contentment there is no progress. Happiness is to desire something, to work for it, and …
Quote for Today: Nitya Prakash
Instant gratification is overrated. While it might seem exciting to be able to snap your fingers and have something you want materialize before your eyes, that won’t give you …
Quote for Today: William Least Heat Moon
All of those things–rock and men and river–resisted change, resisted the coming as they did the going. (Mount) Hood warmed and rose slowly, breaking open the plain, and cooled …
Quote for Today: Chuck Close
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us …