Sunday

December 2013

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
 - Alain de Botton
10:30 AM Dec 31st
This morning I suddenly catch myself:  I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?
 - Anna Kamienska
8:00 AM Dec 30th
We live longer
but less precisely
and in shorter sentences.
 - Wisława Szymborska
The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.
 - Alain de Botton
11:30 AM Dec 29th
Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back.
 - Alain de Botton
8:30 AM Dec 28th
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page.
 - Gaston Bachelard
9:30 AM Dec 27th
Why do people feel things and go places, tell me if you know.
 - J. D. Daniels
9:00 AM Dec 27th
The night seems more temporary than the day, and it also seems more uncertain. In this way it sums up our lives, which are uncertain and temporary. We forget about that in the day. In the day we go on for ever.
-  Jeanette Winterson
8:40 PM  |  Dec 26th
Would I live my life over?
Make the same unforgivable mistakes?
Yes, given half a chance. Yes.
- Raymond Carver
8:30 AM Dec 26th
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
 - Eric Sevareid
10:35 PM Dec 25th


If you think you're enlightened go spend a week with your family.
 - Baba Ram Dass
That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?"
 – Mary Oliver
My god, a moment of bliss. Why isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
 - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Woods disguised as woods alive without end,
and above them birds in flight play birds in flight.
 - Wisława Szymborska
What is it I interchange so suddenly with strangers?
 - Walt Whitman
We are all happy; if we only knew it.
 - Fyodor Dostoevsky
To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.
 - Frederick Buechner
Every beginning
is but a continuation,
and the book of events
is never more than half open.
 - Wisława Szymborska
and now in a hurry just
pack, always, each day,
and go breathless
- Adam Zagajewski
To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
 - Jeanette Winterson
There is no reason to constantly attempt to figure everything out.
 - Michael Singer
Clear moments are so short.
There is much more darkness. More
ocean than terra firma. More
shadow than form.
 - Adam Zagajewski
When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.
 - Ambrose Bierce
Believing love is work is certainly better than believing it's effortless, ceaseless bliss.
 - Eric LeMay
At whatever pace,
isn't there an imperative to live?
- Stephen Dunn
For a moment I forget
who I am. For a moment
I look out the window as if nothing had happened.
 - Patricia Kirkpatric
When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?
 - Nicole Krauss
It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.
 - Nicole Krauss
A picture can tell a thousand words,
but a few words can change it's story.
 - Sebastyne Young
Remember,
a stranger once told you that the breeze
here is something worth writing poems about.
 - Shinji Moon
Dear friend, dear trembling partner, what surprises you most in what you feel, earth's radiance or your own delight?
 - Louise Glück
Time passed, and some of  it became this.
And some of  it simply evaporated.
 - Louise Gluck
Let the people who never find true love
keep saying that there's no such thing.
Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
 - Wisława Szymborska
How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.  - Gaston Bachelard
6:00 AM Dec 6th
Somehow I can't write about anything but what concerns us and us alone, in the middle of the crowded world.
 - Franz Kafka
9:30 AM Dec 5th
Because in truth
I am speaking now
the way you do. I speak
because I am shattered.
 - Louise Glück
5:30 AM Dec 4th
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.
 - Wisława Szymborska
9:36 AM Dec 3rd
I am living
at the center
of a wound still fresh.
 - Octavio Paz
6:00 AM Dec 2nd
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
 - Wisława Szymborska
9:00 AM Dec 1st