June 2013
This morning, out the window,
the deer stood like a blessing, then vanished.
- Jane Hirshfield
10:00 AM June 30th
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
- Italo Calvino
9:00 PM June 29th
For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.
- Dag Hammarskjld
7:30 AM June 28th
and now in a hurry just
pack, always, each day,
and go breathless
- Adam Zagajewski
8:00 AM June 27th
Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
- Terry Pratchett
2:00 PM June 25th
Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.
- Vladimir Nabokov
8:00 AM June 24th
So at the end of this day, we give thanks
For being betrothed to the unknown.
- John O'Donohue
8:33 PM June 22nd
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7:30 AM June 21st
Well while I'm here I'll
do the work -
and what's the Work?
To ease the pain of living.
Everything else, drunken
dumbshow.
- Allen Ginsberg
7:00 PM June 20th
This is the school, isn't it? The magic place? The world. Here. And you don't realize it until you look.
- Terry Pratchett
8:00 AM June 20th
This is it, but if you fixate on it, then it isn't anymore.
- Zen proverb
7:30 AM June 19th
It is what it is. You are what you are. There are no mistakes.
- Tom Robbins
7:30 AM June 18th
spellbound by our own imperfect lives
because they are lives,
and because they are ours.
- Robyn Sarah
7:30 AM June 17th
You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.
- Julio Cortázar
8:08 AM June 15th
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
- Thomas Mann
8:30 AM June 14th
The me sitting here and the image of me I have are out of sync.
- Haruki Murakami
7:30 AM June 13th
I was just getting comfortable and had pulled out my pen when I suddenly realized I was looking up at stars.
- Hsu Yun
7:30 PM June 12th
It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.
- Jeanette Winterson
8:00 AM June 12th
There's no life
that couldn't be immortal
if only for a moment.
- Wislawa Szymborska
7:32 AM June 11th
Contradiction is the scream of a soul drawn and quartered by the moment.
- Edmond Jabès
7:00 AM June 10th
Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
- Annie Dillard
8:30 AM June 9th
Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.
- Edmond Jabès
9:33 AM June 8th
Hope: the following page. Do not close the book.
- Edmond Jabès
7:30 AM June 7th
Every person is a half-opened door
leading to a room for everyone.
- Tomas Tranströmer
10:00 AM June 6th
Music is like a glass-house, where pebbles are flying everywhere and rocks rolling around. The rocks roll straight through and still no glass is ever found undone.
- Tomas Tranströmer
8:25 PM | June 5th
Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.
- Robert Musil
8:25 AM June 5th
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
- Vladimir Nabokov
3:23 PM June 4th
The sense of life is in living to the fullest the moments when life seems to make sense.
- Vera Pavlova
8:00 AM June 4th
And what would you do, if you could rule the world for a day?
- Robert Musil
7:30 AM June 3rd
The days are nouns: touch them
The hands are churches that worship the world
- Naomi Shihab Nye
8:00 AM June 2nd
I am carried in my shadow
like a violin
in its black case
- Tomas Tranströmer
11:30 AM June 1st
the deer stood like a blessing, then vanished.
- Jane Hirshfield
10:00 AM June 30th
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
- Italo Calvino
9:00 PM June 29th
For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.
- Dag Hammarskjld
7:30 AM June 28th
and now in a hurry just
pack, always, each day,
and go breathless
- Adam Zagajewski
8:00 AM June 27th
Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
- Terry Pratchett
2:00 PM June 25th
Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.
- Vladimir Nabokov
8:00 AM June 24th
So at the end of this day, we give thanks
For being betrothed to the unknown.
- John O'Donohue
8:33 PM June 22nd
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7:30 AM June 21st
Well while I'm here I'll
do the work -
and what's the Work?
To ease the pain of living.
Everything else, drunken
dumbshow.
- Allen Ginsberg
7:00 PM June 20th
This is the school, isn't it? The magic place? The world. Here. And you don't realize it until you look.
- Terry Pratchett
8:00 AM June 20th
This is it, but if you fixate on it, then it isn't anymore.
- Zen proverb
7:30 AM June 19th
It is what it is. You are what you are. There are no mistakes.
- Tom Robbins
7:30 AM June 18th
spellbound by our own imperfect lives
because they are lives,
and because they are ours.
- Robyn Sarah
7:30 AM June 17th
You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.
- Julio Cortázar
8:08 AM June 15th
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
- Thomas Mann
8:30 AM June 14th
The me sitting here and the image of me I have are out of sync.
- Haruki Murakami
7:30 AM June 13th
I was just getting comfortable and had pulled out my pen when I suddenly realized I was looking up at stars.
- Hsu Yun
7:30 PM June 12th
It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.
- Jeanette Winterson
8:00 AM June 12th
There's no life
that couldn't be immortal
if only for a moment.
- Wislawa Szymborska
7:32 AM June 11th
Contradiction is the scream of a soul drawn and quartered by the moment.
- Edmond Jabès
7:00 AM June 10th
Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
- Annie Dillard
8:30 AM June 9th
Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.
- Edmond Jabès
9:33 AM June 8th
Hope: the following page. Do not close the book.
- Edmond Jabès
7:30 AM June 7th
Every person is a half-opened door
leading to a room for everyone.
- Tomas Tranströmer
10:00 AM June 6th
Music is like a glass-house, where pebbles are flying everywhere and rocks rolling around. The rocks roll straight through and still no glass is ever found undone.
- Tomas Tranströmer
8:25 PM | June 5th
Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.
- Robert Musil
8:25 AM June 5th
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
- Vladimir Nabokov
3:23 PM June 4th
The sense of life is in living to the fullest the moments when life seems to make sense.
- Vera Pavlova
8:00 AM June 4th
And what would you do, if you could rule the world for a day?
- Robert Musil
7:30 AM June 3rd
The days are nouns: touch them
The hands are churches that worship the world
- Naomi Shihab Nye
8:00 AM June 2nd
I am carried in my shadow
like a violin
in its black case
- Tomas Tranströmer
11:30 AM June 1st
