October 2010
Desire is not love. Love is something much more responsible. It has care in it.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
6:50 AM Oct 26th
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
- Saul Bellow
12:15 PM Oct 25th
Our thoughts have a semblance of substance that they really don't deserve.
- Mark Nunberg
7:08 AM Oct 25th
We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.
- Dave Eggers
9:57 AM Oct 24th
Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.
- Thaddeus Golas
7:49 PM Oct 23rd
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
- Don DeLillo
9:37 AM Oct 23rd
Instead of thinking about what you're missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing.
- Darwin P. Kingsley
9:06 AM Oct 22nd
We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
- Charles Baudelaire
6:50 AM Oct 22nd
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
6:55 AM Oct 21st
We are what we seem to be, transient mortal creatures subject to necessity and chance. Our destiny can be examined but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.
- Iris Murdoch
7:00 AM | Oct 20th
Equality without differentiation is bad equality; Differentiation without equality is bad differentiation.
- Zen saying
6:37 AM Oct 19th
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
7:53 AM Oct 18th
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
- Susan Sontag
6:43 PM | Oct 17th
It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
- Tom Stoppard
10:25 PM Oct 16th
You may be capable of great things, but life consists of small things.
- Deng Ming-Dao
1:56 PM Oct 14th
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
1:52 PM Oct 14th
Hate is a lack of imagination.
- Graham Greene
1:45 PM Oct 14th
Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
- Victor Hugo
1:39 PM Oct 14th
Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.
- Kakuzo Okakura
6:00 AM Oct 14th
The journey is so immediately far.
- Tu Fu
7:13 AM Oct 13th
Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination.
- Victor Hugo
6:49 AM Oct 12th
Reality is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
- J. B. S. Haldane
1:08 PM Oct 11th
Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.
- Alan Watts
6:59 AM Oct 11th
Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.
- John O'Donohue
3:05 PM Oct 10th
These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.
- Don DeLillo
7:26 AM Oct 8th
I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
- John Green
6:07 AM Oct 7th
The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
- Victor Hugo
10:50 AM Oct 5th
Unfinished Poem - I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.
- John O'Donohue
7:13 AM Oct 5th
When you act selfishly, you incrementally become more of a jerk than you already are. You're more skillful at being a jerk.
- Andrew Olendzki
7:01 AM | Oct 4th
The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.
- Stephen Batchelor
2:19 PM Oct 3rd
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
- Karl Kraus
3:37 PM Oct 2nd
I praise life's bright catastrophes, and all the ceremonies of grief.
- Diane Ackerman
7:25 AM Oct 1st
- Thich Nhat Hanh
6:50 AM Oct 26th
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
- Saul Bellow
12:15 PM Oct 25th
Our thoughts have a semblance of substance that they really don't deserve.
- Mark Nunberg
7:08 AM Oct 25th
We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.
- Dave Eggers
9:57 AM Oct 24th
Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.
- Thaddeus Golas
7:49 PM Oct 23rd
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
- Don DeLillo
9:37 AM Oct 23rd
Instead of thinking about what you're missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing.
- Darwin P. Kingsley
9:06 AM Oct 22nd
We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
- Charles Baudelaire
6:50 AM Oct 22nd
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
6:55 AM Oct 21st
We are what we seem to be, transient mortal creatures subject to necessity and chance. Our destiny can be examined but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.
- Iris Murdoch
7:00 AM | Oct 20th
Equality without differentiation is bad equality; Differentiation without equality is bad differentiation.
- Zen saying
6:37 AM Oct 19th
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
7:53 AM Oct 18th
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
- Susan Sontag
6:43 PM | Oct 17th
It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
- Tom Stoppard
10:25 PM Oct 16th
You may be capable of great things, but life consists of small things.
- Deng Ming-Dao
1:56 PM Oct 14th
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
1:52 PM Oct 14th
Hate is a lack of imagination.
- Graham Greene
1:45 PM Oct 14th
Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
- Victor Hugo
1:39 PM Oct 14th
Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.
- Kakuzo Okakura
6:00 AM Oct 14th
The journey is so immediately far.
- Tu Fu
7:13 AM Oct 13th
Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination.
- Victor Hugo
6:49 AM Oct 12th
Reality is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
- J. B. S. Haldane
1:08 PM Oct 11th
Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.
- Alan Watts
6:59 AM Oct 11th
Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.
- John O'Donohue
3:05 PM Oct 10th
These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.
- Don DeLillo
7:26 AM Oct 8th
I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
- John Green
6:07 AM Oct 7th
The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
- Victor Hugo
10:50 AM Oct 5th
Unfinished Poem - I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.
- John O'Donohue
7:13 AM Oct 5th
When you act selfishly, you incrementally become more of a jerk than you already are. You're more skillful at being a jerk.
- Andrew Olendzki
7:01 AM | Oct 4th
The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.
- Stephen Batchelor
2:19 PM Oct 3rd
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
- Karl Kraus
3:37 PM Oct 2nd
I praise life's bright catastrophes, and all the ceremonies of grief.
- Diane Ackerman
7:25 AM Oct 1st
