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