Quote for Today: Mary Renault
You mustn’t get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one’s a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives …
Quote for Today: Mary Wollstonecraft
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their FASCINATING graces, and viewing them as if they were in a …
Quote for Today: C. JoyBell C.
You’re going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that noisily stake their claims in your territory and everywhere else they set foot on. This …
Quote for Today: Henri Nouwen
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with …
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 …
Quote for Today: Masaru Emoto
If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus …
A Healing Song: The Breathless Choir
Society encourages us to pursue marketable things at which we excel. Is there value in pursuits that challenge our weaknesses? The weeding and winnowing starts when we are very young. What was …
Quote for Today: Ta-Nehisi Coates
I found that people would tell me things, that the same softness that once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories. This was …
Quote for Today: Yann Martel
I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has …
Look at the Beautiful Noise: Noise Photography and Jeff Ascough
We often feel we must choose between representation of the external and expression of the internal. Can’t we enjoy both? With the advent of the digital camera ideas about image …