May 2014

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.
 - Thich Nhat Hanh
12:00 PM May 31st


We don't remember the dream,
but the dream remembers us.
 - Linda Pastan
8:00 AM May 31st

Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are.
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
7:30 AM May 30th


If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim.
 - Abraham Maslow
7:30 AM May 29th


Take a day to heal
from the lies you've told yourself
and the ones that have been told to you.
 - Maya Angelou
12:12 PM May 28th


Just because you've had enough
doesn't mean you wanted too much.
 - Dean Young
7:30 AM May 28th

If a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.
 - Franz Kafka
7:00 AM May 27th


Maybe the world isn't made of dust.
Maybe you won't make another mistake.
You're as young as you'll ever be.
 - Dean Young
9:30 AM May 25th


The world is nothing but a bunch of thin lines separating what we think are extremes.
 - Harlan Coben
9:00 AM May 24th


Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
 - Anne Carson
7:00 PM May 22nd


When you're mindful,
you're beginning to notice,
it's like this.
 - Ajahn Sumedho
8:00 AM May 22nd

I have daughters and I have sons.
When one of them lays a hand
On my shoulder, shining fish
Turn suddenly in the deep sea.
- Robert Bly
8:30 AM May 21st



There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.
 - Dean Young
7:00 AM May 19th


There is no end to our grumbling; we want
Comfortable earth and sumptuous Heaven.
 - Robert Bly
8:00 PM May 18th

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.
 - Shakti Gawain
1:00 PM May 17th


Blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.
 - Lao Tzu
6:30 AM May 16th


Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
 - Friedrich Nietzsche
8:30 AM May 15th


Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you.
 - Don Miguel Ruiz
7:29 AM May 14th


Part of the human condition is that we all think that we are uniquely complex while everyone else is somewhat simpler to read.
 - Harlan Coben
9:00 AM May 13th


We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
 - G. K. Chesterton
8:00 AM May 12th


There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
 - Martha Graham
9:30 AM May 11th


We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
 - G. K. Chesterton
11:00 AM  |  May 10th



It is you who make me human every dawn.
All my books are written with your ink.
 - Marge Piercy
6:30 AM May 9th



"Everyone looks happy on Facebook."

"I know, right? What's up with that?"
 - Harlan Coben
3:30 PM May 8th


In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
 - William Saroyan
8:00 AM May 8th


If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
 - James Baldwin
9:30 AM May 7th


I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
 - Rita Mae Brown
10:00 AM May 6th


Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.
 - Anna Quindlen
6:00 AM May 6th


Does everything that exists have to be grounded in sufficient reasons? Or are there things that somehow happen out of nowhere?
 - Slavoj Žižek
6:00 AM May 5th


The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.
 - Auguste Rodin
10:00 AM May 4th


It is good to make use of a speculative mind.
 - Chögyam Trungpa
9:30 AM May 4th


Calm Down
What happens happens mostly without you.
- Josef Albers
10:30 AM May 3rd



I don't feel frightened by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.
 - Richard Feynman
7:00 AM May 2nd


Four Rules for Life:
Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.
 - Angeles Arrien
7:30 AM May 1st