"Hope"

"Hope" is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
--Emily Dickinson

Really

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
--Margery Williams

Real

We all sort of feel like we're contraptions, like we pasted ourselves together--a little bit from here, a little bit from there--and then, if you're very lucky, along comes someone who loves you the right way, and then you're real.
--Mike Nichols

Truth

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
--Gloria Steinem

Writing

I can't discard a verse before it is written because it is the writing of the verse that produces whatever delights or interests or facets that are going to catch the light. The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
--Leonard Cohen

Expert

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
--Niels Bohr

Stillness

Stillness is not just an indulgence for those with enough resources--it's a necessity for anyone who wishes to gather less visible resources.
--Pico Iyer

Email

Email is a refugee from the open, interoperable, less-controlled "web we lost." It's an exciting landscape of freedom amidst the walled gardens of social networking and messaging services.
--Alexis C. Madrigal

To Love

There is always something left to love.
--Gabriel García Márquez

Language

Language is everyday magic.
--David Hallerman

Affection

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection--that is the last and final and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.
--Mark Twain

Style

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
--Gore Vidal

Unknown

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.
--Rebecca Solnit

New App

I don't want a new app to help me do work; I want different ways to think about work so I can get more done.
--Frank Chimero

Shadow

We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but of course there's some primitive weird stuff in me.
--Anne Lamott

Enchantment

As well as the literature of authenticity, there is a literature of enchantment, which invites the reader to participate in the not-real in order to wake from a dream of reality to the ineffability, strangeness and brevity of life on Earth.
--Marcel Theroux

Useful

You know what's useful, to sane people? Hospitals, schools, trains, parks, classes, art, books, clean air, fresh water ... purpose, meaning, dignity. If you can't attain that stuff, what good are five hundred aisles, channels, or megamalls?
--Umair Haque

Imagined

Without an imagined picture of the future, our civilization would not exist.
--Dan Falk

Detection

What escapes categorization can escape detection altogether.
--Rebecca Solnit