Quote for Today: Aberjhani
On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other’s humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by …
Quote for Today: Ray Bradbury
We’re going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we’re doing, you …
Quote for Today: Molly Ivins
Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, …
Quote for Today: Salman Rushdie
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn’t occur to me to …
Apocalyptic Fears: Executing Peace by Katherine McDaniel
How do we deal with things that scare and anger us? Art can help us work through fear toward hope. My newest painting came about while I was meditating on fear. I …
Reacting to Fear: Mary Engelbreit’s In the USA
Creativity can help us through uncomfortable emotions and thoughts. What happens when these personal visions strike a nerve with others? Mary Engelbreit is a children’s book illustrator and author from St. Louis, …
Quote for Today: Iain M. Banks
It was a warship, after all. It was built, designed to glory in destruction, when it was considered appropriate. It found, as it was rightly and properly supposed to, an awful beauty …
Quote for Today: Jonathan Safran Foer
That is what death is like. It doesn’t matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn’t matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what …
Quote for Today: Steven Galloway
A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made. ―Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
Quote for Today: Miyamoto Musashi
You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. ―Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five …