CHILDBIRTH
Envy the kangaroo. That pouch setup is extraordinary: the baby crawls out of the womb when it is about two inches long, gets into the pouch, and proceeds to mature. I’d have a baby if it would develop in my handbag.
— Rita Rudner
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Quote of the day: CHILDBIRTH
December 24, 2011Quote of the day: FUNDAMENTALISM
December 21, 2011FUNDAMENTALISM
If the right people were medicated, I wouldn’t have to be.
– Aunt Betty’s Almanac
Quote of the day: HIPSTERS
December 20, 2011HIPSTERS
Nobody ever self-identifies as a hipster, ever. Yet there seem to be tons of them. Who are they? They’re “them,” of course, but actually they are us. And we hate them/us. Still, we like having the health-food place around the corner and the new boutique down the street. But “Die, hipster scum” is never far from our lips. A more appropriate slogan, however, might be “Save the neighborhood – kill yourself!”
— Andrew Boyd, “I Got Off the Beaten Path (But So Did Everyone Else)”, The Sun
Quote of the day: HOPE
December 19, 2011HOPE
Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons.
Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. The more propitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper the hope is.
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
— Vaclav Havel, Disturbing the Peace
Quote of the day: TRAUMA
December 13, 2011TRAUMA
Trauma can become a kind of alchemical vessel through which the next stage of life is born. Where fate is concerned, there is no rejecting it, no getting rid of it. You have to go through it and find what is hidden in it.
— Michael Meade, interviewed in The Sun
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