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15 May, 2015 / 0 Comments

Blessed is he that is not offended that no man gets what he deserves but vastly more. Blessed is he who gets that joke, who sees that miracle.

— -Fredrich Buechner

03 January, 2015 / 0 Comments

It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. … No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

— Martha Graham

17 September, 2014 / 0 Comments

“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”

— Leonard Bernstein

06 August, 2014 / 0 Comments

"True wisdom is both bold and humble. It is never afraid to say what it thinks it has seen, but will always covet other angles of vision."

— N. T. Wright, from Surprised by Scripture

Jim & Jean-Luc

I love Jim Jarmusch's films, and this is a great quote. (via swiss-miss.com via another site that now says it contains malware)....

04 August, 2014 / 0 Comments

22 July, 2014 / 0 Comments

"Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

22 July, 2014 / 0 Comments

“Your brain’s greatest skill is its ability to think about the minds of others in order to understand them better.”

— Nicholas Epley