Quote of the Day -- Carl Jung

Only the paradox comes anywhere near to comprehending the fullness of life.

-- Carl Jung

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According to Wikipedia, Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961), was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies.

Quote of the Day -- Samuel Johnson

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

-- Samuel Johnson

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According to Britannica, Samuel Johnson was an English critic, biographer, essayist, poet, and lexicographer who was one of the greatest figures of 18th-century life and letters.

Quote of the Day -- Henry David Thoreau

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

-- Henry David Thoreau

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According to Wikipedia, Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.

Quote of the Day -- Eurdora Welty

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.

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According to Wikipedia, Eudora Alice Welty (1909 – 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer, who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.

Quote of the Day -- Josh Billings

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

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According to Wikipedia, Josh Billings was the pen name of 19th-century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw. He was a famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States during the latter half of the 19th century. He is often compared to Mark Twain.

Quote of the Day -- Margaret Mead

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

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Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978) was a renowned and ground-breaking American cultural anthropologist. Although I've never read her work books directly, I have, like so many others, read about her work and her theories. I have read Composing a Further Life by her daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson.

Quote of the Day -- Octavia Butler

All struggles are power struggles. And most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.

-- Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

Quote of the Day -- Keith Douglas

Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.

-- Keith Douglas

Quote of the Day -- Chris Cleave

This was how a kind heart broke, after all: inward, making no shrapnel.

-- Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

Quote of the Day -- Christopher Alexander

Very few things have so much effect on the feeling inside a room as the sun shining into it.

-- Christopher Alexander

Quote of the Day -- Diane Ackerman

Living things tend to change unrecognizably as they grow. Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? 

Flora or fauna, we are all shapeshifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

-- Diane Ackerman

Quote of the Day -- Henry David Thoreau

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Quote of the Day -- Katherine May

We are in the habit of imagining our lives to be linear, a long march from birth to death in which we mass our powers, only to surrender them again, all the while slowly losing our youthful beauty. This is a brutal untruth. Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.

-- Katherine May

Quote of the Day -- Luther Standing Bear

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

-- Luther Standing Bear

Quote of the Day -- Jamaica Kincaid

If you ever want to keep up a grudge against someone, don’t see that person alongside beautiful flowers.

-- Jamaica Kincaid

Quote of the Day -- Rachel Carson

In spite of our rather boastful talk about progress, and our pride in the gadgets of civilization, there is, I think, a growing suspicion — indeed, perhaps an uneasy certainty — that we have been sometimes a little too ingenious for our own good. 

-- Rachel Carson

Quote of the Day --- Alexander Dumas

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

-- Alexander Dumas

Quote of the Day -- John Stuart Mill

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

-- John Stuart Mill

Quote of the Day -- Lisa Feldman Barrett

Social reality is a superpower that emerges from an ensemble of human brains. We exercise that power every time we treat sparkling diamonds like they have value, every time we idolize a celebrity, every time we vote in an election, and every time we don’t vote in an election. We have more control over reality than we might think. We also have more responsibility for reality than we might realize. 

-- Lisa Feldman Barrett

Quote of the Day -- Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

-- Charles Darwin