January 2012
December 2011
My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts,...
“Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is...”
– Tom Robbins
“Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers....”
– Victor Hugo
“Universe is making music all the time.”
– Tom Waits
“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees...”
– Carl Sagan
The world is simply throbbing with rich treasures,...
“Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to...”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
– Anne Sexton
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and...”
– Shauna Niequist
“All new learning looks at first like chaos.”
– Adrienne Rich, Powers of Recuperation
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most...”
– Sigmund Freud, in a letter to C.G. Jung
“The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary—how to...”
– Montgomery Clift
The past doesn’t matter. People cling to it...
“I want to talk with you forever. I remember every word you’ve ever said to me....”
– Lisa Kleypas
A year, ten years, a lifetime. The way I love you will outlast every calendar, clock, and every toll of every bell that will ever be cast.
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time,...”
– Sylvia Plath
“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
““Have faith,” you whisper, your eyes burning in my moonlight. “Soon…”
“Soon...”
– Greg Forrester, “Star-cross’d”
“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet.”
– L.M. Montgomery
I’ve been let down by the people I love but I will...
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an...
It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
There’s no weakness in forgiveness.
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
– Rumi
“The lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in...”
– Kahlil Gibran