Daily Rumi
In search of some wise and inspiring words to live by you can never go wrong with the 13th-century Persian poet, scolar, and Sufi mystic Rumi:
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Can’t Get Out of Bed?
Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180 AD) was a Roman Emperor and a practicing Stoic. He was also pretty good at motivating people: “At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is […]
Food for Thought
In order to approximate those shapes and attitudes which are considered normal and desirable, both sexes deform themselves, justifying the process by referring to the primary, genetic difference between the sexes. But of forty-eight chromosomes only one is different: on this difference we base a complete separation of male and female, pretending as it were that all forty-eight were different. – Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
Quote for Today
Taken from Flowmagazine weekly #4
Quote of the Day
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. – Edith Wharton, Pulitzer Prize-winning American novalist (1862-1937) Song for today: Madonna – Ray of Light
Quote of the day
“Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art” – Susan Sontag *Photograph from cotton_eyed_doug Song for today: Apparat – The Soft Voices Die
Transcending the Mundane
* “The primitive idea of justice is partly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It works out from both sides in the notion that two blacks make a white, and that when a wrong has been done, it should be paid for by an equivalent suffering. It seems to the Philistine majority a matter of course that this compensating suffering should be inflicted on the wrongdoer for the sake of its deterrent effect on […]
Quote of the Day
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde
“Artists can color the sky red…
because they know it’s blue, those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid” – Jules Feiffer* Song for today: Fiona Apple – Red, Red, Red * American cartoonist
Happy Intervals
“… there’s no such thing as happy endings, only happy intervals and inevitable conclusions, and an author must choose whether to follow a story to its inevitable conclusion or draw the curtain at a happy interval.” Rue McClanahan in My First Five Husbands… and the Ones Who Got Away
