Quote for Today: Erich Fromm
Sculpture by Bryan Alexander Davis© bitterherbs via CCLicense The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man’s nature, robots cannot live and...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
© B. Monginoux / Landscape-Photo.net with CCLicense “My life is very monotonous,” the fox said. “I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Sinclair Lewis
Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many...
View ArticleBuilding Creative Resilience: Strategies for Cultivating Enchantment
Adversity and boredom can strip away our joy and creativity. Can a sense of enchantment improve our resilience? Boredom © Jae with CCLicense Have you ever felt as if you were missing something or...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Charlotte Eriksson
You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the window or lock on the door, and you’re the house where people come and go as they please, because...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Mehmet Murat İldan
If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Franklin Lushington
There is no quicker way of growing old than undue indulgence in regular habits. Indeed it seems probable that the reason why so many people die sooner than they should is because they have organised...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Sylvia Plath
But I must get back into the world of my creative mind: otherwise, in the world of pies & shin beef, I die. The great vampire cook extracts the nourishment & I grow fat on the corruption of...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Haruki Murakami
My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that’s it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I’d loved and been loved,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Gustave Flaubert
At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Steven Millhauser
After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world of stern and ludicrous adults. We were bored, we were restless, we longed to be seized by any whim...
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