Salvation

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.
--Chuck Close

Good

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
--Bertrand Russell [02.22.08]

Regularly

The grounds for hope are simply that we don't know what will happen next, and that the unlikely and the unimaginable transpire quite regularly.
--Rebecca Solnit [05.06.15]

By Name

Climate change is global-scale violence, against places and species as well as against human beings. Once we call it by name, we can start having a real conversation about our priorities and values. Because the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality.
--Rebecca Solnit

Irritating

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
--Evelyn Underhill [05.14.02]

Ask Myself

We all think about it. And every now and then I think about my own death and I think about my own funeral. And I don't think of it in a morbid sense. And every now and then I ask myself, "What is it that I would want said?"
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Loss

Loss is a cousin of loneliness.
--Olivia Laing

Notice

I often feel that women radically overestimate what men notice or care about.
--Zadie Smith

Teach

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
--Tryon Edwards

Means

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [05.26.04]

Paradox

For whatever we do, even whatever we do not do prevents us from doing its opposite. Acts demolish their alternatives, that is the paradox.
--James Salter [09.22.09]

Real

That's what real intimacy is about. Sharing secrets with one another--about what's on one's mind inside and out.
--Julie Gottman [07.13.09]

Memory

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
--Edward de Bono [09.11.02]

Like a Road

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.
--Rebecca Solnit

Spaceship Earth

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
--Marshall McLuhan (1965)

The Meaning

And so it seems to me that the most essential element in the development of any creation, any art or science, must be love. A love that begins with the simple expressions of care for a little child. When people help us to feel good about who we are, they are really helping us to love the meaning of what we create.
--Fred Rogers

To Know

To know yourself is to let yourself be loved.
--Ben Watt [06.29.99]

Right

Human beings are never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
--Laurens van der Post

Sacrifice

It is Trump whose past has finally caught up with him; it is Trump who stands the most to lose; it is Trump who unilaterally can launch nuclear weapons. Trump has shown that human beings have little inherent value to him. If Trump senses he may have to make a personal sacrifice, he will sacrifice the world instead.
--Sarah Kendzior (April 2018)

Illusion

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubborn, persistent illusion.
--Albert Einstein

Curiosity

The problem is, time is limited and energy is so limited--the mind, also, of course. Thankfully, the curiosity doesn't end.
--Martin Scorsese