Friday

November 2013

It's all possible but neither of us speaks for a long time and the moment closes and we're back in the world we've always known.
 - Junot Diaz
9:30 AM Nov 29th
On a day when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a day.
 - Rumi
9:00 AM Nov 28th
Feeling lost, desperate and crazy is as much part of a decent life as optimism, confidence and reason.
 - Alain de Botton
9:30 AM Nov 27th
Don't you enjoy being alive? Don't you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I'm real, I'm solid, I'm alive! Don't you like this?
 - George Orwell
7:30 AM Nov 26th
I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
 - Chuang Tzu
9:00 AM Nov 25th
Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself.
 - Mooji
9:00 AM Nov 24th
You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.
 - Jamie Tworkowski
7:00 PM  |  Nov 23rd


There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.
 - Naomi Shihab Nye
and here we are
with our names for the days
the vast days that do not listen to us.
 - W. S. Merwin
Die knowing something. You are not here long.
 - Walker Evans
Remember
every day is one more chance to
be careful what you wish for, everyone says,
but that doesn't mean quit wishing.
 - Matthew Thorburn
This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.
 - Marilynne Robinson
and every day on the balcony of the sea,
wings open, fire is born,
and everything is blue again like morning.
 - Pablo Neruda
You won't get another day like this one.
 - Kenzo Kitakata
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
 - Lin Yutang
It is a time when there is much in the window, but nothing in the room.
 - Dalai Lama
You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.
 -  Marilynne Robinson

What matters is the shape-making impulse, the emergence and convergence of an excitement into a wholeness.
  - Seamus Heaney
the world remains always ready and deep, an inexhaustible environment, with the combined vividness of an actuality and flexibility of a dream.
 - William Stafford
To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.
 - G. K. Chesterton
My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk.
 - John Keats
It's never quite right, all the things we are
taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we
die, all the lives we live,
they are never quite right.
 - Charles Bukowski
But I have had them —
torrents of days. Who
am I to complain they
shorten?
 - Marge Piercy