“Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.''Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit. 'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. … Continue reading Quote of the day: 12/30/2020
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Quote of the day 6/30/18
The Paradoxical Commandments "People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and … Continue reading Quote of the day 6/30/18
Quote of the Day: 3/17/18
"Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.” Augustine Of Hippo
Quote of the day: 10/28/17
"Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own bodies; eating disorders, far from being 'bizarre' and anomalous, are utterly continuous with a dominant element of the experience of being female in this culture." Susan Bordo
Quote of the day: 8/24/17
“Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.” --Edward Said
Quote of the day: 7/12/17
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. … Continue reading Quote of the day: 7/12/17
Quote of the day: 7/6/17
"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." — Cardinal Mermillod
Quote of the day: 6/28/17
"Many great actions are committed in small struggles." --Victor Hugo
Quote of the day: 5/12/17
"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself." Walter Anderson
Quote of the day: 4/20/17
“to shut [aging and the upward years] out, to try to be young, say, at 80, to pretend there’s no old age, then you miss something. You miss a quality that if you don’t have it, you haven’t lived a complete life” (Sarton 1991d, 195). Taken from "Of Creative Crones and Poetry:Developing Age Studies Through … Continue reading Quote of the day: 4/20/17
Mrs. Lady Renaissance 