Sunday

January 2012

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
- Chuang Tzu
7:07 AM Jan 31st


It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
- John Green
3:28 PM | Jan 28th


As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.
- John Green
12:12 PM Jan 27th


It could mean everything. It could be what Rilke meant, when he wrote: You must change your life.
- Mary Oliver
7:31 AM Jan 27th


Even so, I'm starting to like the way life tosses you around
- Amy Dryansky
6:54 AM Jan 26th


Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
- Anton Chekhov
7:00 AM Jan 25th


Trees quiver in the wind,
sailing on a sea of mist
out of earshot.
- Dag Hammarskjöld
5:50 AM Jan 24th


Somewhere, people have entirely forgotten about tomorrow.
- Jennifer Michael Hecht
9:56 AM Jan 22nd


Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
- Tara Brach
1:27 PM Jan 21st


Yes. It could happen any time, tornado, earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen. Or sunshine, love, salvation. It could, you know. That's why we wake up and look out - no guarantees in this life. But some bonuses, like morning, like right now, like noon, like evening.
- William Stafford
7:00 | AM Jan | 20th



There's nothing new under the sun: that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun.
- Wislawa Szymborska
6:46 AM Jan 19th


Out there, on the rolling waves of the world, the turbulent, violent waves, we are alone with ourselves and our choices.
- Douglas Imbrogno
1:02 PM Jan 18th


Yet my mind wheels
Like a weathervane in a storm.
What will it be next?
- Samaneri Sudhanna
7:00 AM Jan 17th


This is why I value that little phrase "I don't know" so highly. It's small, but it flies on mighty wings.
- Wislawa Szymborska
6:00 PM Jan 14th


Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate.
- Milan Kundera
5:00 PM Jan 14th


Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.
- Dag Hammarskjöld
7:07 AM Jan 12th


You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
7:00 AM Jan 10th


A liquid moon moves gently among the long branches.
- William Carlos Williams
7:07 AM Jan 9th


You are your own god and are surprised when you find that the wolf pack is hunting you across the desolate ice fields of winter.
- Dag Hammarskjöld
9:00 AM | Jan 8th


A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present.
- Edward Gorey
3:30 PM Jan 7th


In the world outside of things there is nothing to get in the way.
- Muso Soseki
12:12 PM Jan 7th


Time for a walk in the world outside | And a look at who I am
- Muso Soseki
6:33 AM Jan 6th


Be aware of your desperation.
- S. N. Goenka
6:45 AM Jan 4th


years past have been stirred by the sight of a solitary cloud drifting with the wind
- Basho
3:36 PM Jan 2nd


I'll tell you what love of this life is. It's thinking, this could almost be enough.
- Susan Elbe
9:46 AM Jan 1st