Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
– Katharine Hepburn
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21624-sometimes-i-wonder-if-men-and-women-really-suit-each
Feb 142014
Feb 132014
Watch out for love
(unless it is true,
and every part of you says yes including the toes) ,
it will wrap you up like a mummy,
and your scream won’t be heard
and none of your running will end.
Love? Be it man. Be it woman.
It must be a wave you want to glide in on,
give your body to it, give your laugh to it,
give, when the gravelly sand takes you,
your tears to the land. To love another is something
like prayer and can’t be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
– Anne Sexton
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/admonitions-to-a-special-person/
Feb 122014
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
– Dr. Benjamin Spock, regarding mothers caring for their children
Feb 112014
Leap, and the net will appear.
Love is there, behind our fear.
Although “Leap and the net will appear” is sometimes attributed to an unknown Zen source, it is, in fact, a quote by American naturalist John Burroughs.
http://www.blog.zenleadership.net/2009/05/leap-and-net-will-appear.html
Feb 102014
When someone else’s happiness is your happiness that is love. – Lana Del Rey
Feb 092014
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
– St. Augustine of Hippo
Quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing edited by Larry Chang, who is currently working on a new book, Wisdom for the Soul of Queer Folk.
Feb 082014
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm’s way.
Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont (16 November 1778), as quoted in The Naval History of the United States (1890) by Willis John Abbot, p. 82
The Winter Olympics have opened in Sochi, Russia, at the edge of the Black Sea, where John Paul Jones fought in the Russian Navy under Catherine The Great. This is the same John Paul Jones who commanded the Bonhomme Richard during the American Revolutionary War.