Quote of the Month; September 2020
“Memory produces hope in the same way amnesia produces despair.”
~Walter Brueggeman; american scholar and theologian.
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Quote of the Month; August 2020
“The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.”
~Rebecca Solnit; american author.
Quote of the Month; July 2020
“Experience by itself is not science.”
~Edmund Husserl; german philosopher who established Phenomenology.
Quote of the Month; June 2020
“The only real elegance is in the mind, if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.”
~ Diana Vreeland; american magazine editor and fashion journalist.
Quote of the Month; May 2020
“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”
~ Issac Asimov; american author and professor of biochemistry.
Quote of the Month; April 2020
“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”
~ Dorothy Day; american journalist, social activist, anarchist and servant of god.
Quote of the Month; March 2020
“Reality is only a term, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.”
~ Ian Curtis; british singer-songwriter and musician.
Quote of the Month; February 2020
“The main thing in life is survival. And survival is not just staying alive. It is also a constant effort to grow and to learn and to work.”
~ Vincent Price; american actor.
Quote of the Month: January 2020
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
– Maya Angelou; american poet, singer, memoirist and civil rights activist.
Quote of the Month; December 2019
“I must learn to love the fool in me–the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of my human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my Fool.”
– Theodore Isaac Rubin; american psychiatrist and author.