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