When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under. – Rosellen Brown Category: Miscellaneous
…for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life. – Rainer Maria Rilke, “Archaic Torso of Apollo,” about a sculpture, translated by Category: Miscellaneous
Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. – Edward Somers Category: Miscellaneous
I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others? – Maurice Maeterlinck Category: Miscellaneous
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. Its scary. – Barbara Kruger Category: History
By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity. – Thomas Kempis Category: Purity
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. – Thomas Jefferson Category: Presidents Day