Friday

April 2011

Everything seems simple until you think about it.
- Audrey Niffenegger
3:36 PM April 30th


That's the thing about living vicariously; it's so much faster than actual living.
- Audrey Niffenegger
6:30 AM April 29th



No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
- Confucius
6:03 AM | April 28th


Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
- Voltaire
7:04 AM April 27th



You live in the illusion of things. There is a reality. You are that reality.
– Kyabje Kalu
7:01 AM April 26th


Catch yourself thinking.
- Allen Ginsberg
7:59 AM April 25th


Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is.
- Taizan Maezumi
1:15 PM | April 23rd


Praise the odd, serendipitous world.
- Stephen Dunn
7:00 AM April 22nd


It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
- Allen Ginsberg
5:59 AM April 21st


The usual logic, that of linear sequentiality, is uncomfortably like the proof of a geometry theorem.
- Andrey Tarkovsky
7:00 AM April 20th


It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
- Allen Ginsberg
7:00 PM April 19th


Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
- John Ruskin
7:07 AM April 18th


I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
- Franz Kafka
10:07 AM April 16th



The other world is here, just under our fingertips.
- Charles Wright
7:09 AM April 15th


Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
- T. S. Eliot
7:18 AM April 14th


Just so you don't forget, what is right with you?
7:00 PM April 13th


Like misty moonlight,
watery, bewildering
our temporal way
- Issa
8:24 PM April 12th


Without my journey,
And without the spring,
I would have missed this dawn.
- Shiki
6:52 AM April 11th


The temple bell stops ringing -
but the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers.
- Basho
1:03 PM April 10th


Everything is always falling out of balance against a background of perfect harmony.
- Suzuki
12:24 PM April 9th


We are tendencies who tend to think we are not tendencies.
- Stonepeace
6:36 AM April 8th


If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
- Ray Bradbury
6:48 AM April 7th


That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
- John Green
7:09 PM April 6th


There's been this waiting that's gone along with me wherever I go.
- Raymond Carver
6:04 AM April 5th


We must admit there will be music despite everything.
- Jack Gilbert
9:29 AM April 3rd


If we deny our happiness, resist our satisfaction, we lessen the importance of their deprivation.
- Jack Gilbert
12:08 PM April 1st