Quote of the Day -- Edith Wharton

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

-- Edith Wharton

Quote of the Day -- Terry Pratchett

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors…. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. 

-- Terry Pratchett

Quote of the Day -- Leo Tolstoy

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

-- Leo Tolstoy

Quote of the Day -- B.B. King

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. 

-- B.B. King

Quote of the Day -- E.E. Cummings

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

-- e.e. cummings

Quote of the Day -- Elie Wiesel

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

-- Elie Wiesel

Quote of the Day -- Franz Kafka

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

-- Franz Kafka

Quote of the Day -- Samuel Smiles

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

-- Samuel Smiles

Quote of the Day -- Mary Oliver

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

-- Mary Oliver

Quote of the Day -- Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

-- Oscar Wilde