Quote Of The Day

[The Albatross]

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace." ~ Chuck Palahniuk

 

[The Albatross]

"Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being a sunny today." ~ Shannon Alder

 

[ladee]

The reason that life works at all, is because not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day...
Mermaid Musings

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"Restlessness has a mission and it must run its course. It is the expression of our discomfort with the ways in which we’ve become habituated. It seeks to undermine those places where we might be striving, mimicking, or falling into obligation." ~Toko-pa Turner

 

[The Albatross]

“Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.” ~ Seneca

“Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.” ~ Seneca

“If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you’d be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled—have you no shame in that?” ~ EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 28”

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift." ~Robin Wall Kimmerer

 

[The Albatross]

“Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.” ~ Seneca

Expanded version from On The Shortness of Life:
"But those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear for the future have a life that is very brief and troubled; when they have reached the end of it, the poor wretches perceive too late that for such a long while they have been busied in doing nothing. Nor because they sometimes invoke death, have you any reason to think it any proof that they find lifelong. In their folly they are harassed by shifting emotions which rush them into the very things they dread; they often pray for death because they fear it. And, too, you have no reason to think that this is any proof that they are living a long time—the fact that the day often seems to them long, the fact that they complain that the hours pass slowly until the time set for dinner arrives; for, whenever their distractions fail them, they are restless because they are left with nothing to do, and they do not know how to dispose of their leisure or to drag out the time. And so they strive for something else to occupy them, and all the intervening time is irksome; exactly as they do when a gladiatorial exhibition is been announced, or when they are waiting for the appointed time of some other show or amusement, they want to skip over the days that lie between. All postponement of something they hope for seems long to them. Yet the time which they enjoy is short and swift, and it is made much shorter by their own fault; for they flee from one pleasure to another and cannot remain fixed in one desire. Their days are not long to them, but hateful; yet, on the other hand, how scanty seem the nights which they spend in the arms of a harlot or in wine! It is this also that accounts for the madness of poets in fostering human frailties by the tales in which they represent that Jupiter under the enticement of the pleasures of a lover doubled the length of the night. For what is it but to inflame our vices to inscribe the name of the gods as their sponsors, and to present the excused indulgence of divinity as an example to our own weakness? Can the nights which they pay for so dearly fail to seem all too short to these men? They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn”.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"Have patience with everything unresolved within your heart and try to love the questions themselves. It is possible to live and not know." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

“Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.” ~Terry Pratchett

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"Trust the over-thinker who tells you they love you. They have, most assuredly, thought of every reason not to." ~L.K. Pilgrim

 

[The Albatross]

“To understand what kind of filter our reporter's mind is, we must ask a series of questions about it. This amounts to asking a series of questions about any material dealing with current events. The questions are these:
1. What does the author want to prove?
2. Whom does he want to convince?
3. What special knowledge does he assume?
4. What special language does he use?
5. Does he really know what he is talking about?

[How to Read a Book (1972), P. 244]”
― Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren