Thursday

May 2012

One day soon it will stumble up the walk and knock,
knock hard, and you will have to answer the door.
  -  Naomi Shihab Nye
7:40 AM May 31st


What Do You Care What Other People Think?
 -  Richard Feynman
 8:41 PM May 30th


Every being cries out to be read differently.
- Simone Weil
7:00 AM May 30th


We have so much we want to say and figure out.
- Anne Lamott
7:47 AM May 29th


You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
- Anne Lamott
9:40 AM May 26th


Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.
- Richard Feynman
8:40 AM May 26th


Why people do not go around in a continual state of surprise is beyond me.
- William Maxwell
9:31 AM May 25th


I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
- Richard Feynman
9:31 AM May 24th


People are delicate, aren't they?
- Yasunari Kawabata
6:34 AM May 23rd


How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
- Wislawa Szymborska
8:00 AM May 22nd


Remember that you own what happened to you.
- Anne Lamott
6:50 AM May 22nd


You should think of your life as a remarkable adventure that’s happened to you.
- Wislawa Szymborska
7:36 AM May 21st


Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.
- Carl Sandburg
8:00 AM May 18th


There is ecstasy in paying attention.
- Anne Lamott
7:09 AM May 17th


Your head is a living forest full of song birds.
- E. E. Cummings
the gravel in your guts
6:46 AM May 16th


The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
- Anne Lamott
6:54 AM May 15th


I love life - that's my real weakness.
- Albert Camus
7:24 AM May 14th


Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
- Anne Lamott
9:45 AM May 13th


Words at night were feral things.
- Joy Williams
7:07 PM May 12th


Most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
- Anne Lamott
7:00 AM May 11th


There is a wilderness inside you, and a banquet. Both.
- Anne Lamott
6:46 AM May 10th


Every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. We have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. We have never seen a totally sane human being.
- Robert Anton Wilson
7:01 AM | 7:02 AM | May 9th


I recognize the divinity in you, but actually more like, I recognize our each-otherness, instantly.
- Anne Lamott
7:22 AM May 8th


Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
- Albert Camus
6:39 AM May 7th


What’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.
- Anne Lamott
6:33 PM | May 5th


When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.
- Anne Lamott
6:54 AM May 4th


Indeed, that anything is astonishing is itself astonishing, just as it is wonderful that we may spend our lives in a state of wonder.
- Gagdad Bob
one cosmos
7:52 AM May 3rd


Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
- Robert Anton Wilson
7:00 AM May 3rd


Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.
- Robert Anton Wilson
7:00 AM May 2nd


Like you, I took the true path to be half fog, half rumor beneath my feet. Like you, I kept going anyway.
- Thomas Centolella
7:13 AM May 1st