We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us.
~ Storm Jameson
There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.
If we are to survive on this planet there must be compromises.
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
Hope is a talent like any other.
Language is memory and metaphor.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
