83 posts tagged “quote of the day”
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
~Henri Nouwen
"But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?"
~Lois McMaster Bujold
"Hallo, Eeyore," said Christopher Robin, as he opened the door and came out. "How are you?"
"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is."
"And freezing."
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately."
"Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle."
–Amy Bloom
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"The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."
–Quentin Crisp
"I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people."
–Antonia Brenner
"Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards."
–Soren Kierkegaard
"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."
–E.E. Cummings
I'd like to share an insightful passage about why we read, from The Gift of Time: Letters from a Father by Jorge Ramos:
"There is something of a contained intensity in the act of reading. Why do we do it? Because through reading we can immerse ourselves in new worlds, sink into other people's lives, recover deeply hidden secrets, witness things we never could have imagined on our own. Reading unlocks places, circumstances, and feelings that -- before you opened the book -- were unknown. And, above all, it connects you: with yourself, with the author, with the characters, with other times or with things that frighten or thrill you. We read because, with a book in hand, we are others."
The Gift of Time is a book of letters written to the author's children, reflecting on a wide range of thoughtful topics. It is deeply personal, yet, at the same time, it offers many universal truths about parenting and the human experience.
