40 days of poetry: Day 7: Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
In response to the Covid-19 outbreak around the globe, Synkroniciti will be posting a video of a poem every day for forty days. If you would like to participate, please …
Quote for Today: Chaim Potok
For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause …
Quote for Today: Federico Fellini
When I felt I was dying, these past few days, things were no longer anthropomorphic. The telephone, which looks like a sort of upturned black snake, was merely a telephone. …
Quote for Today: Sena Jeter Naslund
If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has …
Quote for Today: Leo Tolstoy
“People speak of the misfortunes of suffering, but if at this moment I were asked: ‘Would you rather be what you were before you were taken prisoner, or go through …
Quote for Today: Robert Grudin
…as we proceed to higher and higher levels of expertise, and as the stakes get higher and higher, the agonies of excellence reappear in new and frightening ways. A tiny …
Quote for Today: Emil Dorian
Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain. ―Emil Dorian, Quality of Witness: A Romanian Diary, 1937-1944 Image: Sherpa on …
Quote for Today: Lynsay Sands
Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. …
Quote for Today: Oli Anderson
The first step to empathy and compassion is realising the similarities between yourself and those that are suffering; the first step to forgiveness is realising that we’re all human and …
Quote for Today: Richard Attenborough
There is a light in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime lose sight of this force when there is suffering, and …