Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, the passengers eating maize and chicken will stare out the window forever. Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness you must travel
Browsing category: Wonder
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." Mary Tyler Moore, American film actress, producer and social advocate
"Stories create community, enable us to see through the eyes of other people, and open us to the claims of others.”
Peter Forbes
"Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist." Audrey Hepburn
“Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.”
Jean Houston
“That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.” Peter Rollins
" Love is the biggest thing there is."
David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
"Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings." Marianne Williamson
“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (Different Seasons)