“A breeze sent down a sequence of linear snow puffs from somewhere above. Beautiful. Why were we made just so, to find so many things that happened every day pretty?”
George Saunders, “Tenth of December”
Quote for the Day #5
“Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.”
Samuel Smiles
Quote for the Day #4
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Quote for the Day #3
“For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”
Sherlock Holmes, “The Red-Headed League” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Quote for the Day #2
“The glass splashed out in the moon, like a bright cold water baptizing the sleeping earth.”
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Quote for the Day #1
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson