Posted on November 29, 2022November 29, 2022 “Life is one long struggle in the dark.”—Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), Roman philosopher, 1st century BC
Posted on November 25, 2022November 25, 2022 “There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.”—Milan Kundera, Czech writer, 1929–
Posted on November 25, 2022November 24, 2022 “Intimacy requires courage, because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.”—Rollo May, American psychologist, 1909-1994
Posted on November 23, 2022November 23, 2022 “Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, ‘Be fruitful and multiply.’ But not in those words.”—Woody Allen, American film director, 1935–
Posted on November 20, 2022 “In proportion as our inward life fails, we go constantly and desperately to the post office.”—Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, 1817-1862
Posted on November 19, 2022November 19, 2022 “There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.”—José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, 1883-1955
Posted on November 18, 2022November 17, 2022 “He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.”—Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher, 604-531 BC
Posted on November 16, 2022November 15, 2022 “One’s prime is elusive.”—Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist, 1918-2006
Posted on November 14, 2022November 14, 2022 “Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.”—Liz Smith, American gossip columnist, 1923-2017
Posted on November 13, 2022 “Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.”—Jane Wagner, American writer, 1935–
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