Tuesday, October 14, 2025

absence

 

 

 

Absence, the highest form of presence.

James Joyce

Monday, October 13, 2025

i


 

 

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

James Baldwin

Sunday, October 12, 2025

do good

 

 

 

Do good to your body, so that you soul may desire to live in it.

Theresa of Avila

Saturday, October 11, 2025

memories


 

 

 

memories slowly moving backwards in a cave full of fog.

dd

Friday, October 10, 2025

people


 

 

People can cry much easier than they can change.

James Baldwin

Thursday, October 9, 2025

you


 

You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of live.

Anais Nin

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

death

 

 

 

The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.

Hannah Arendt

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

universe


 

Our entire universe is probably in a tiny glass jar somewhere, placed on a shelf in an alien child's room as a science fair project that got a C-.

Anonymous

Monday, October 6, 2025

build

 


If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

Jules Renard

Sunday, October 5, 2025

living


 

 

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

Ingmar Bergman

Saturday, October 4, 2025

not everyone


 

 

Not everyone is meant to be in your future. Some people are just passing through to teach you lessons in life.

Anonymous

Friday, October 3, 2025

oppressors


 

 

Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.

Audre Lorde

Thursday, October 2, 2025

do

 

 

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

the Talmud

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

excellence


 

 

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

mercy

 

 

One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration that one is at the mercy of someone else's childhood.

Hanif Kureishi

Monday, September 29, 2025

sway

 

 

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one many by logic.

Robert A Heinlein

Sunday, September 28, 2025

caught

 

 

 

Sometimes faint scraps of her dream would get caught on the wall of consciousness.

Haruki Murakami

Saturday, September 27, 2025

dreams

 

 

 

entering the realm of dreams.

Friday, September 26, 2025

truth

 

 

Those who don't know the truth are fools, but those who know the truth and call it a lie are criminals.

Bertolt Brecht

Thursday, September 25, 2025

believe


 

 

If you don't believe in freedom of speech for people you disagree with, you don't believe in freedom of speech at all.

Noam Chomsky

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

we

 

 

 

We are made of time, we are made of music.

Nathalie Hodges

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

narcissism


 

I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric that pays so much attention to individual self-improvement and so little to the practice of love with the context of community.

bell hook

Monday, September 22, 2025

house



 

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

Jules Renard

Sunday, September 21, 2025

dream


 

 

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

Ingmar Bergman

Saturday, September 20, 2025

circumstances

 

 

 

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Epictetus

Friday, September 19, 2025

america

 

 

 

America feels like a subscription service that keeps raising the price and removing the features.

Brains and Spoons

Thursday, September 18, 2025

pain

 

 

 

pain from the past informs the present and the future.

dd

mindfulness

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

Sylvia Boorstein

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

follies


 

 

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

purpose

 

 

 

The idea of life having a purpose stand and falls with the religious system.

Sigmund Freud

Monday, September 15, 2025

sane


 

 

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sunday, September 14, 2025

love


 

 

The one thing we can never get enough of is love And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

Henry Miller

Saturday, September 13, 2025

used to

 

 

 

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Friday, September 12, 2025

those

 

 

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those are substantial enough to move on.

Criss Jami

Thursday, September 11, 2025

9/11


 

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me.

i remember

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

gates

 

 

 

May all your fences have gates.

August Wilson

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

dangerous


 

 

It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth.

Benoit Blanc

Monday, September 8, 2025

change


 

 

Until you change your thinking, you will always recycle your experiences.

Anonymous

Sunday, September 7, 2025

old

 


 

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Jonathan Swift

Saturday, September 6, 2025

argue

 

 

 

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Oscar Wilde

Friday, September 5, 2025

living


 

 

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

Ingmar Bergman

Thursday, September 4, 2025

photography


 

 

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

reason


 

 

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.

Zadie Smith

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

truth


 

 

Those who don't know the truth are fools, but those who know the truth and call it a lie are criminals.

Bertolt Brecht

Monday, September 1, 2025

igornance


 

 

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Sunday, August 31, 2025

beware

 

 

 

Beware the peddlers of nostalgia.

Edward T. O'Donnell

Saturday, August 30, 2025

purpose

 

 

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existences is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung

Friday, August 29, 2025

mercy

 

 

One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is the mercy of someone else's childhood.

Hanif Kureishi

Thursday, August 28, 2025

in charge

 

 

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life.

Anais Nin

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

drifts


 

 

The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

George Orwell