December 2018
Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.
- Christopher Pike
8:30 AM Dec 31st
Living rationally and authentically means understanding that life centrally involves making leaps of faith, both small and large, and that the value of living is to a large extent the value of experiencing your life, whatever that experience is.
- L. A. Paul
9:30 AM Dec 30th
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
9:45 AM Dec 29th
Our lives are no more than the sum of manifold contingencies, and no matter how diverse they might be in their details, they all share an essential randomness in their design: this then that, and because of that, this.
- Paul Auster
8:30 AM Dec 28th
But, learning to forgive ourselves and others because we have not chosen wisely is what makes us most human. We make horrible mistakes. It's how we learn. We breathe love. It's how we learn. And it is inevitable.
- Nayyirah Waheed
8:30 AM Dec 26th
such small moments keep people alive. such small moments so large when it all comes together and holds.
- Charles Bukowski
10:15 AM Dec 25th
Are there scenes in life, right now, for which we might conceivably be thankful? Is there a basis for joy or serenity, even if felt only occasionally? Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?
- Robert Adams
12:30 PM Dec 24th
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.
- Hannah Arendt
9:00 AM Dec 23rd
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
11:30 AM Dec 22nd
being young helps get you through many senseless and terrible days. being old does too.
- Charles Bukowski
8:00 AM Dec 21st
meanwhile, there is a certain rhythm to the essentials that now need attending to.
- Charles Bukowski
9:00 AM Dec 19th
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
- Barbara Kingsolver
2:00 PM Dec 16th
On the off chance that you're not going to live forever, why not take a shot at being happy now?
- Charlie Skinner
8:30 AM Dec 14th
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
- Mark Twain
8:00 AM Dec 13th
The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon.
- Warsan Shire
8:00 PM Dec 12th
The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.
- Janet Fitch
8:15 AM Dec 12th
After hearts shot through with arrows, we have bunnies followed by a warlike fire in the sky, then ghosts, turkeys to honor more ghosts, and a baby born in a barn who is not yet a ghost but also a ghost, for whom we drag trees inside where they do not belong.
- Mary Ruefle
8:00 AM Dec 10th
Writing down verses, I got
a paper-cut on my palm.
The cut extended my life line
by nearly one fourth.
- Vera Pavlova
12:00 PM Dec 9th
I have now, and have had since this afternoon, a great yearning to write all of my anxiety entirely out of me.
- Franz Kafka
5:30 PM Dec 6th
stay
and watch the next set of possibilities
arise
and fall away
what have you got to lose
but everything
piece by piece
everything
day by day
- Sam Shepard
8:30 AM Dec 6th
Say you have seen something. You have seen an ordinary bit of what is real, the infinite fabric of time that eternity shoots through, and time's soft-skinned people working and dying under slowly shifting stars. Then what?
- Annie Dillard
7:00 AM Dec 5th
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R. D. Laing
8:00 AM Dec 4th
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.
- Daniel Gilbert
1:00 PM Dec 3rd
Is the cosmos
laughing at us? No. It's saying
improvise. Everywhere you look
there's beauty, and it's rimed
with death. If you find injustice
you'll find humans, and this means
that if you listen, you'll find love.
- Jan Zwicky
4:00 PM Dec 1st
- Christopher Pike
8:30 AM Dec 31st
Living rationally and authentically means understanding that life centrally involves making leaps of faith, both small and large, and that the value of living is to a large extent the value of experiencing your life, whatever that experience is.
- L. A. Paul
9:30 AM Dec 30th
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
9:45 AM Dec 29th
Our lives are no more than the sum of manifold contingencies, and no matter how diverse they might be in their details, they all share an essential randomness in their design: this then that, and because of that, this.
- Paul Auster
8:30 AM Dec 28th
But, learning to forgive ourselves and others because we have not chosen wisely is what makes us most human. We make horrible mistakes. It's how we learn. We breathe love. It's how we learn. And it is inevitable.
- Nayyirah Waheed
8:30 AM Dec 26th
such small moments keep people alive. such small moments so large when it all comes together and holds.
- Charles Bukowski
10:15 AM Dec 25th
Are there scenes in life, right now, for which we might conceivably be thankful? Is there a basis for joy or serenity, even if felt only occasionally? Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?
- Robert Adams
12:30 PM Dec 24th
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.
- Hannah Arendt
9:00 AM Dec 23rd
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
11:30 AM Dec 22nd
being young helps get you through many senseless and terrible days. being old does too.
- Charles Bukowski
8:00 AM Dec 21st
meanwhile, there is a certain rhythm to the essentials that now need attending to.
- Charles Bukowski
9:00 AM Dec 19th
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
- Barbara Kingsolver
2:00 PM Dec 16th
On the off chance that you're not going to live forever, why not take a shot at being happy now?
- Charlie Skinner
8:30 AM Dec 14th
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
- Mark Twain
8:00 AM Dec 13th
The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon.
- Warsan Shire
8:00 PM Dec 12th
The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.
- Janet Fitch
8:15 AM Dec 12th
After hearts shot through with arrows, we have bunnies followed by a warlike fire in the sky, then ghosts, turkeys to honor more ghosts, and a baby born in a barn who is not yet a ghost but also a ghost, for whom we drag trees inside where they do not belong.
- Mary Ruefle
8:00 AM Dec 10th
Writing down verses, I got
a paper-cut on my palm.
The cut extended my life line
by nearly one fourth.
- Vera Pavlova
12:00 PM Dec 9th
I have now, and have had since this afternoon, a great yearning to write all of my anxiety entirely out of me.
- Franz Kafka
5:30 PM Dec 6th
stay
and watch the next set of possibilities
arise
and fall away
what have you got to lose
but everything
piece by piece
everything
day by day
- Sam Shepard
8:30 AM Dec 6th
Say you have seen something. You have seen an ordinary bit of what is real, the infinite fabric of time that eternity shoots through, and time's soft-skinned people working and dying under slowly shifting stars. Then what?
- Annie Dillard
7:00 AM Dec 5th
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
- R. D. Laing
8:00 AM Dec 4th
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.
- Daniel Gilbert
1:00 PM Dec 3rd
Is the cosmos
laughing at us? No. It's saying
improvise. Everywhere you look
there's beauty, and it's rimed
with death. If you find injustice
you'll find humans, and this means
that if you listen, you'll find love.
- Jan Zwicky
4:00 PM Dec 1st
