I do love irony. It’s so…complicated and coincidental. (Cassandra Kemper, The Madder Woman)
Sharing our personal stories makes us grateful for experiencing the radiance of being alive. Writing our personal stories documenting our vivid encounters with the larger world and examining our own time-tested ideas shapes the conception of our own being
Sharing our personal stories makes us grateful for experiencing the radiance of being alive. Writing our personal stories documenting our vivid encounters with the larger world and examining our own time-tested ideas shapes the conception of our own being. (Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls)
If you are allowing something to upset or anger you, try this: Before giving in to those negative emotions, try and think of one positive thing, one learning that you will gain, a single glimpse of something that you can use to build a positive future. Here’s a nudge to push you along: You own your mind. You choose to be either a victim or to take control
If you are allowing something to upset or anger you, try this: Before giving in to those negative emotions, try and think of one positive thing, one learning that you will gain, a single glimpse of something that you can use to build a positive future. Here’s a nudge to push you along: You own your mind. You choose to be either a victim or to take control (Michael Holbrook, Dear You, Live! Love, Life: Awaking your spirit, overcoming fears & excuses, and living a purposeful, fulfilling life.)
I just wanted to tell you, how beautiful you were; that day, that night, that life
I just wanted to tell you, how beautiful you were; that day, that night, that life (Anthony Liccione)
Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow
Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow (Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes)
Heart’s fragrance is spent with the ending of springAnd nothing left but a tear-stained robe
Heart’s fragrance is spent with the ending of springAnd nothing left but a tear-stained robe (Li Shangyin)
I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work
I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work (Helen Mirren)
Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving, of falling light. Here on the river, as I lurch against a freshening of the current, is the practice of rivers. In navigating by the glow of the Milky Way, the practice of light. In steadying with a staff, the practice of wood
Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving, of falling light. Here on the river, as I lurch against a freshening of the current, is the practice of rivers. In navigating by the glow of the Milky Way, the practice of light. In steadying with a staff, the practice of wood. (Barry López, About This Life)
Madness, genius, originality – it’s all the same thing; it’s a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one
Madness, genius, originality – it’s all the same thing; it’s a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one (Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong)
They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud
They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud (Robert Burton)