Quote of the Season
Spring,2025
Write for whatever holy thing you believe in, not for your poetry workshop fellows...The main thing is to know that your craving to write is the big thing and will continue, and is more valuable than the finished poem.
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Mary Oliver
Quote of the Season
Winter,2025
This New Year, let's live fully, messily and beautifully.
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Suvir Saran
December,2024
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
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W.T. Ellis
November,2024
We receive this food in gratitude to all beings who have helped to bring it to our table and vow to respond in turn to those in need with wisdom and compassion.
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Buddhist Blessing
October,2024
I want my life to be my best work of art. I want to try to live thoughtfully and intentionally and sculpt my humanity into something that will please me at the end of my life.
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Jewel
September,2024
The labyrinth is not a maze or a puzzle to be solved but a path of meaning to be experienced.
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Alex N. Pattakos, Ph.D.
August,2024
Sometimes the best map will not guide you
You can't see what's round the bend
Sometimes the road leads through dark places
Sometimes the darkness is your friend
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Bruce Cockburn
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July,2024
Vita Brevis
Ars Longa
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Hippocrates
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June,2024
The best films are those that leave us questioning our own beliefs and values.
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Roger Ebert
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May,2024
Make good trouble wherever and whenever you can.
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Joan Baez
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April,2024
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down...If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book, nothing can help him.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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March,2024
The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins?
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Edgar Allan Poe
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February,2024
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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January,2024
Ring out, wild bells to the wild sky, the flying cloud, the frosty light...
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
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December,2023
It makes no difference as to the name of the God, since Love is the real God of all the world.
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Apache Wisdom
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November,2023
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
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Meno
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October,2023
The meaning of life is to see.
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Hui Neng
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September,2023
To approach the Badlands is to find a gap in the known and expected world.
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Robert Kroetsch
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August,2023
The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
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George Carlin
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July,2023
I have often wondered what was going on in her mind as she gazed over the water as the sun was beginning to set.
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June,2023
My father was like God.
Busy elsewhere.
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Winston Churchill
May,2023
Nobody loves me but my mother
And she could be jivin' too
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B.B. King
April,2023
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake
March,2023
When the mind is festering with trouble or the heart torn, We can find healing among the silence of mountains or fields, or listhen to the simple, steadying rhythm of waves. When serenity is restored, new perspectives open to us and difficulty can begin to seem like an invitation to new growth.
John O'Donohue
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February,2023
Love is so short
Forgetting so long
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Pablo Neruda
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January,2023
Why do people say, "Grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.
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Betty White
December,2022
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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Blaise Pascal
November,2022
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite-only a sense of existence.
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Henry David Thoreau
October,2022
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
September,2022
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
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Martin Buber
August,2022
A bird sings not because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song.
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Maya Angelou
July, 2022
You can observe a lot by just watching.
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Yogi Berra
June, 2022
Trying to figure out who you are is like trying to take a snapshot of a river.
It’s hard to know because it’s constantly moving.
But I’ve tried to make each moment accurate to my perception of it.
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Peter Coyote
