A Place

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
--Joan Didion

Facebook

Facebook...a way of being social without having to actually socialize. Socializing apparently, in this brave new world, takes too much time and energy. I find that concept abhorrent. I don't need fake friends or phony social "activities." But then, I am weird.
--Slavic Diva

Promise

I don't promise answers, but I do promise responses.
--Spaulding Gray

We Dwell

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
--Voltaire

Not

Of course, as anyone with any exposure to statistics knows, correlation is not causation.
--Clive Thompson

Problem

Ronald Reagan's "government is the problem" now seems a self-fulfilling problem--only it's not for too much governance, now it is for completely abdicating its responsibility to the commonweal.
--Vincent Amato

Positive Interactions

Researchers found that couples in lasting marriages have at least five small positive interactions (touching, smiling, paying a compliment) for every negative one (sneering, eye rolling, withdrawal). When the ratio drops, the risk of divorce increases.
--Margaret Eby

I Believe

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.
--Roger Ebert

Moments

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
--George Carlin

Necessary

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
--Carl G. Jung

Love, Fear

When you function in love, your inside creates your outside. When you function in fear, your outside creates your inside.
--Drunvalo Melchizedek

Temporarily

We are all temporarily able-bodied.
--Head of Disabled Student Services at UC Berkeley

Weren't New Yorkers

The cars rushing below knew nothing. People in cars weren't New Yorkers anyway, they'd suffered some basic misunderstanding.
--Jonathan Lethem

Sneaking Around

Astrology is a science for poets: metaphor sneaking around with mathematics.
--Spiritual Mysteries.com

Margin

Once we know that accidents can be catastrophic and irreversible, it becomes clear that there is no margin of error. We're operating a brittle system, unable to contain failure and unable to recover from it.
--David Roberts

Keeps Moving

I don't know nothing except change will come.
Year after year what we do is undone.
Time keeps moving from a crawl to a run.
I wonder if we're gonna ever get home.
--Patty Griffin