Quote for Today: Carl Sagan
Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to …
Quote for Today: Lord Byron
Thus sung, or would, or could, or should have sung, The modern Greek, in tolerable verse; If not like Orpheus quite, when Greece was young, Yet in these times he …
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: Cecelia Ahern
Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the …
Quote for Today: Eleanor Roosevelt
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the …
Resilience Does Not Forget: June 4, 1989 by Sherry Cheng
Years after a catastrophe, resilience continues to express itself. Memory lets us relive and reinterpret past events, unpacking things that overwhelmed us and growing our response over time. It is …
Quote for Today: Louise Glück
Snowdrops Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you. I did not expect to survive, earth suppressing …
Quote for Today: John Darnielle
But resiliency only means that a thing retains its shape. That it doesn’t break, or lose its ability to function. It doesn’t mean a child forgets the time she shared …
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: Jasleen Kaur Gumber
This world isn’t a battlefield. Someday you will realise how your success depends on a bunch of other people and that day you will be wiser. You will know how …