"She’s being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965


The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

~Donald E. Westlake

In a second-hand bookshop head to the back,
find the old books with dust undisturbed
and worn off covers for these
clothe true treasures.”
― Rachel Hall

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
― Hemingway

“First we feel. Then we fall.”
― James Joyce

"You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.
This is but half the truth.
You are also as strong as your strongest link.
To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the ocean
by the frailty of its foam.
To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy."

-Khalil Gibran

"and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Khalil Gibran

“Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing knowledge as your heart
falls out of your mouth.”
― Anne Sexton

“We are asleep with compasses in our hands. ”
― W.S. Merwin

Something continues and I don't know what to call it
though the language is full of suggestions
in the way of language
but they are all anonymous
and it's almost your birthday music next to my bones
-W.S. Merwin

Adventure is worthwhile.

~Aesop

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about. - Winston Churchill

The 2 quickest ways to disaster are to take nobody's advice and to take everybody's advice.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater man to accept it graciously.
JC Maculay