Tuesday

December 2015

Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life.
 - Eckhart Tolle
2:30 PM Dec 31st


If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
 - Rumi
2:00 PM Dec 31st
Never make a decision when you have to pee. Never stay in the room when your mother has her fortune told.
 - Leonard Cohen
Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.
 - Patrick Rothfuss
Show respect to people who don't even deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.
 - Dave Willis
An idle mind is a sign of  the time.
The less things change the more we doubt design.
 - Wendy Videlock
The instant dissolves in the succession of other nameless instants. In order to save it we must convert it into a rhythm.
 - Octavio Paz
At this time in my life, I've confronted a lot of my devils. A lot of them were pretty silly, but they were incredibly real at the time.
 - Joni Mitchell
In all the mountains,
Stillness;
In the treetops
Not a breath of wind.
 - Robert Hass
Don't assume, ask.
Be kind.
Tell the truth.
Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully.
Have integrity.
Tell people how you feel.
- Warsan Shire
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
 - Garrison Keillor
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
 - Tara Brach
On the off chance that you're not going to live forever, why not take a shot at being happy now?
 - Charlie Skinner
The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.
 -  R. H. Blyth
Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.
 - William Stafford
A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
 - Catherynne M. Valente


What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?
 - Barbara Kingsolver
Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.
 - Raymond Carver


names for involuntary movements of the body -
squirm, wince, flinch, and shudder -
sound like a law firm in Dickens
 - Robert Hass


Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
 - William Maxwell


It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.
 - Dylan Thomas


When the mind is full, the room ceases to be empty.
 - Wang Ping
In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.
 - Chuck Klosterman
Love is a bet, a wild one, placed on freedom. Not my own; the freedom of the Other.
 - Octavio Paz
My mouth is a fire escape.
The words coming out
don't care that they are naked.
There is something burning in there.
 - Andrea Gibson


because all I love is imperfect;
because my memory's flaw
isn't in retention but organization;
because no one asked.
 - Li-Young Lee
I am my own taste, I exist. That's what existence means: draining one's own self dry without the sense of thirst.
 - Jean-Paul Sartre
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.
 - Henry Miller


I'm wearing my skin and it
clatters when i walk, and

 no one prepared me for
this.
 - Shinji Moon
9:00 AM Dec 10th
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
 - Jacob M. Braude


I guess I'm trying to say, grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.
 - John Steinbeck
Just to be clear
I don't want to get out
without a broken heart.
I intend to leave this life
so shattered
there's gonna have to be
a thousand separate heavens
for all of my flying parts.
 - Andrea Gibson
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
 - Rita Mae Brown
Art and love are the same thing: It's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
 - Chuck Klosterman
You can't look at yourself
in the ocean.
Your looks fall apart
like tendrils of light.
 - Federico García Lorca
The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don't.
 - Marcus Aurelius
8:30 AM Dec 4th
There is no other life but this.
 - Henry David Thoreau
7:30 AM Dec 4th
There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.
 - Shauna Niequist
8:00 AM Dec 3rd
If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Oh sure, it seems obvious now, but you'd be amazed at how many people don't think of it when it's relevant. Seriously, just punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.
 - Chuck Klosterman
8:45 AM Dec 2nd
What you're feeling is simply the exhilaration of what might come next. It's called life. Drink it up. That's what it's there for.
  - Thomas Lloyd Qualls
6:00 AM Dec 1st