December 2020

Thank You for letting me live for a little as one of the
sane. Thank You for letting me look at your frightening
blue sky without fear, and your terrible world without
terror, and your loveless psychotic and hopelessly
lost with this love.
 - Franz Wright
8:30 AM Dec 31st

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.
 - Banana Yoshimoto
8:00 AM Dec 29th

The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.
 - G. K. Chesterton
8:30 AM Dec 28th

A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.
 - G. K. Chesterton
12:00 PM Dec 27th

The wise man does not seek enlightenment, he waits for it. So while I was waiting, it occurred to me that seeking perplexity might be more fun.

After all, enlightenment begins where perplexity ends.
 - Terry Pratchett
6:00 PM Dec 23rd

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
 - Douglas Adams
5:00 PM Dec 22nd

It's the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand, everything is still possible.
 - Robert Fulghum
8:00 AM Dec 21st

Remember: The rules, like streets, can only take you to known places. Underneath the grid is a field - it was always there - where to be lost is never wrong, but simply more.

As a rule, be more.
 - Ocean Vuong
8:40 AM Dec 19th

Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.
 - Robert Fulghum
5:05 PM Dec 18th

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.
 - Richard Jackson
1:00 PM Dec 17th

Did you know people get rich off of sadness? I want to meet the millionaire of American sadness. I want to look him in the eye, shake his hand, and say, 'it's been an honor to serve my country.'
 - Ocean Vuong
8:30 AM Dec 16th

It's like when all you've been seeing before you is a cliff and then this bright bridge appears out of nowhere, and you run fast across it knowing, sooner or later, there'll be another cliff on the other side.
 - Ocean Vuong
8:30 AM Dec 15th

Last night, the stars on the water were trap doors. The crows with their charred wings are complaining to a hawk. It's time to pack up the sunsets, the dawns and move on.
 - Richard Jackson
8:30 AM Dec 14th

Either we have hope within us, or we don't. It is a dimension of the soul. It's not essentially dependent upon some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation.
 - Václav Havel
8:45 AM Dec 13th

I have
never been so lost, I have never been so certain of
where I am.
 - Richard Jackson
8:30 AM Dec 11th

Then suddenly you're left all alone
with your body that can't love you
and your will that can't save you.
 - Rainer Maria Rilke
12:00 PM Dec 9th

My own words cast a shadow I never meant. Please forget them.
Or not. The shadows we speak sometimes are what tell us
how astonishing the morning is, as here, where
a last owl tightens a grip on a branch,
where a last chance circles with the first swallows.
 - Richard Jackson
8:00 AM Dec 8th

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up."
 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
12:00 PM Dec 7th

We will spend the rest of the day inventing a kind of love that no longer exists in the world, a kind of love no army can pillage at the outposts, no rumor could bring to its knees like a traitor.
 - Richard Jackson
3:30 PM Dec 6th

The wind wrinkled the dark lake and my thoughts as it swept on the clouds, chopped them up with its hatchet; between them you could just glimpse the Last Judgement, finding each of us guilty of nothing.  - Fleur Jaeggy
9:09 AM Dec 6th

Life so far doesn't have any other name
but breath and light, wind and rain.
If there's a temple, I haven't found it yet.
I simply go on drifting, in the heaven of the grass
and the weeds.
 - Mary Oliver
11:30 AM Dec 5th

True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don't need to regularly escape from.
 - Brianna Wiest
12:12 PM Dec 4th

The main thing socially intelligent people understand is that your relationship to everyone else is an extension of your relationship to yourself.
 - Brianna Wiest
8:45 AM Dec 3rd

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.
 - Federico García Lorca
8:00 AM Dec 2nd

Becoming a human being isn't just something you get with your birth, it's an exercise and it takes your whole life.
 - Zadie Smith
4:45 PM Dec 1st