“We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don’t know.”
(W.H. Auden)
Category Archives: Quotes
… favorite sayings …
Courage…
“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
(Ambrose Redmoon)
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Art, with love and intelligence…
Wow — i can hardly believe it’s been a whole month since i’ve posted!
I expect to be a bit more prolific here eventually. In the meantime, here’s a quote to hold us over…
“Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.”
(Vincent Van Gogh)
It is you…
When you plant the seed of love, it is you that blossoms…
~ Bhagavati
Agnostic?…
“I think i might be agnostic, but there’s no way to know for sure.”
(KH)
Bonhoeffer on injustice…
Martyred by Nazis 70 years ago today.
Certain people…
“I enjoy being with certain people. I enjoy even more being with uncertain people.”
(KH)
Pi day…
“Remember to celebrate Pi Day today by going on and on and on and being completely irrational.”
(@pourmecoffee)
Darkness, lightness…
“Darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable, and lightness has a call that’s hard to hear.”
(Indigo Girls, “Closer to Fine”)
A tender conscience…
“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
(E. Roosevelt)
A Hansen Chronicle 