We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions … Continue reading Quote for Today: Alain de Botton
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Quote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
You don't fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like falling through space. It’s like you jump off your own private planet to visit someone else’s planet. And when you get there it all looks different: the flowers, the animals, the colours people wear. It is a big surprise falling in … Continue reading Quote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
Quote for Today: Alain de Botton
Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere - and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity and weakness and fear and anxiety because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are. --Alain de Botton, quoted in New Yorker Magazine, 2013 Public … Continue reading Quote for Today: Alain de Botton
Quote for Today: Terrence Howard
I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold. --Terrence Howard Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: Nicola Yoon
And what about the lovers who spend hours staring into each other's eyes? Is it a display of trust? "I will let you in close and trust you not to hurt me while I'm in this vulnerable position." And if trust is one of the foundations of love, perhaps the staring is a way to … Continue reading Quote for Today: Nicola Yoon
Quote for Today: Jeanette LeBlanc
hold still. stay there. tease back the layers. you are in the space between your comfort zone and infinity. you want to hide. not be seen. not be open. not be vulnerable. but you have to. there are two ways to do this - soft and gentle or fast and hard. both will get you … Continue reading Quote for Today: Jeanette LeBlanc
Portraits of a Nation: The Devastating Beauty of Yemen
Challenged by the unknown and unfamiliar, we often turn away. Can our curiosity help us to become better, kinder people? This is the first post of a series exploring foreign cultures. We begin with Yemen, focusing not on the bloodshed and the destruction wreaked upon her, but the humanity and beauty that make her both … Continue reading Portraits of a Nation: The Devastating Beauty of Yemen
Quote for Today: Laurie Perez
Bringing a novel to light - revealing the form and cadence, shadows and demeanor of a protagonist constructed from thin air - linking scenes and synchronicity across translucent time - holding up a glass brimming with chilled, never-tasted liquid, then sipping from it with intoxicated focus - allowing lovers to make a perilous mess of … Continue reading Quote for Today: Laurie Perez
Quote for Today: V.S. Carnes
Therefore, she hummed the provincial lullaby she had learned from the officers’ children in the English Quarter of Jerusalem, and watched in fascination while the savage radical’s eyes misted over with tears. For an instant, the prison bars melted away, and she felt God’s presence—for the first time since their imprisonment. She was not a … Continue reading Quote for Today: V.S. Carnes
Quote for Today: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. ―Franklin Delano Roosevelt Image © Freedom House with CCLicense