Quote of the Day -- Madeleine L'Engle

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

-- Madeleine L'Engle

Quote of the Day -- Annie Dillard

If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No", said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?

-- Annie Dillard

Quote of the Day -- Anna Quindlen

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home 

-- Anna Quindlen

Quote of the Day -- Theodore Roosevelt

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Quote of the Day -- Plutarch

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

-- Plutarch

Quote of the Day -- Samuel Johnson

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does anything but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour. 

-- Samuel Johnson

Quote of the Day -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus. 

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the Day -- Mary Oliver

The patterns of our lives reveal us. Our habits measure us. 

-- Mary Oliver

Quote of the Day -- Shirley MacLaine

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

-- Shirley MacLaine

Quote of the Day -- William Morris

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

-- William Morris