Quote of the Day -- D.H. Lawrence

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego...things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in...

-- D.H. Lawrence

Quote of the Day -- Thomas Merton

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

-- Thomas Merton

Quote of the Day -- Anne Lamott

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.

-- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

Quote of the Day -- J.M. Barrie

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

-- J.M Barrie

Quote of the Day -- Chinese Proverb

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Quote of the Day -- Henry David Thoreau

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Quote of the Day -- Warren Buffett

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

-- Warren Buffett

Quote of the Day -- Emilie du Chatelet

Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.

-- Emilie du Chatelet

Quote of the Day -- William Cowper

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.

-- William Cowper

Quote of the Day -- Leo Tolstoy

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

-- Leo Tolstoy

Quote of the Day -- Sir Isaac Newton

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

-- Sir Isaac Newton

Quote of the Day -- Joseph Campbell

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

-- Joseph Campbell

Quote of the Day -- Will Rogers

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

-- Will Rogers

Quote of the Day -- Zig Ziglar

F.E.A.R has two meanings. Forget Everything and Run. Or Face Everything and Rise.

-- Zig Ziglar

Quote of the Day -- Ibn Buttata

Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

-- Ibn Buttata, amazing 14th century traveler

Quote of the Day -- John Steinbeck

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

-- John Steinbeck

Quote of the Day -- Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

-- Voltaire

Quote of the Day -- Edmund Burke

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

-- Edmund Burke

Quote of the Day -- Maude Casey

I was born with a reading list I will never finish.

-- Maude Casey

Quote of the Day -- Oscar Wilde

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken

-- Oscar Wilde

Quote of the Day -- Anna Quindlen

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

-- Anna Quindlen

Quote of the Day -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Quote of the Day - Seneca

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

-- Seneca

Quote of the Day -- Flannery O'Connor

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

-- Flannery O'Connor

Quote of the Day -- Walter Mondale

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

-- Walter Mondale

Quote of the Day -- Laura Ingalls Wilder

After all, a vacation is not a matter of place or time. We can take a wonderful vacation in spirit, even though we are obliged to stay at home, if we will only drop our burdens from our minds for a while. But no amount of travel will give us rest and recreation if we carry our work and worries with us.

-- Laura Ingalls Wilder