January 2012
1 post
“Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
December 2011
1 post
“People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always...”
– Willa Cather
October 2011
8 posts
“The biggest danger, that of losing oneself, can pass off in the world as quietly...”
– Soren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
“We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United...”
– Wendell Berry, Grounded Vision
“The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the...”
– Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful...”
– Vaclav Havel
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget...”
– Maya Angelou
"From Kierkegaard's Journals" or "Why I Love...
What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know, except insofar as a certain understanding must precede every action. The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do; the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. What would be the use of discovering so-called objective truth, of...
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes...”
– Robert Frost
September 2011
4 posts
“All faith is autopsy.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“Angels, I read, belong to nine different orders. Seraphs are the highest; they...”
– Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
“As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is...”
– Albert Camus, Notebooks
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
August 2011
3 posts
“What your heart says is great is great. The soul’s emphasis is always...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“O where is our Mother of Peace
Nodding her purple hood?
For the winds that...”
– William Butler Yeats, Hanraham Laments Because Of His Wanderings
“The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in one’s own home.”
– Theodor Adorno
July 2011
3 posts
“Love is the core energy that rules everything …
love is the one...”
– John E. Fetzer
“Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria”
– Dante Alighieri
“And what is better than wisdom? Woman.
And what is better than a good woman? ...”
– Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
June 2011
1 post
“Everything that I know…I know only because I love.”
– Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
May 2011
1 post
“Love, to be sure, proceeds from the heart, but let us not in our haste about...”
– Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love
February 2011
2 posts
“My parents raised us in a very poor environment. I said that my father had left...”
– Mexican Farmer, South Central Farm, Los Angeles
“I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.”
– George Washington
December 2010
3 posts
“Affliction is the best book in my library.”
– Martin Luther
“Give to us grace, O Father, not to pass by suffering or joy without eyes to see;...”
– H.R.L. Sheppard
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that...”
– Rachel Carson, A Sense of Wonder
November 2010
2 posts
“You saw it. God, you saw it. The death of an innocent child, and my vengeance....”
– Bergman’s “The Virgin Spring”
“Do not let me darkness speak to me!”
– Brother Roger Schutz
October 2010
1 post
“He who has a why can endure any how.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
August 2010
2 posts
“By serving others we become truly free.”
– sign on Gould Farm’s Harvest Barn
“We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking...”
– E. B. White
July 2010
9 posts
“It didn’t matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
“I hope to continue to transcend myself as long as I live.”
– Joan Anderson, A Year by the Sea
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-reliance”
“Surely I am lost enough to find myself.”
– Robert Frost
“To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way...”
– T. S. Eliot, “East Coker” Four Quartets
“If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are.”
– Wendell Berry
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“As the hands toil, so the spirit is raised above the troubled motions of the...”
– Joan Anderson, A Year by the Sea
“There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads to...”
– Shakespeare, Julias Caesar, Act IV, Scene 3
June 2010
1 post
“To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human...”
– Anna Louise Strong
May 2010
3 posts
“The way of the transgressor is hard. God made this world, but he didn’t...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
“People are not an interruption in our lives; they are why we’re here.”
– Christine Caine
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must...”
– Elie Wiesel
April 2010
9 posts
“Life is hard, at times as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Eulogy for the Martyred Children, Birmingham, Alabama, September 18th, 1963
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
– Jorge Luis Borges
“My work is loving the world.
Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird —...”
– Mary Oliver, Messenger
“The Earth offers gift after gift—life and the living of it, light and the...”
– Kathleen Dean Moore, Wild Comfort
“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the...”
– Diane Ackerman