Quote du Jour

"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become."

- Ursula K. LeGuin

Boxerlovinglady's Quote du Jour

"The cure for anything is salt water; sweat, tears or the sea." - Isak Dinesen

Quote du Jour

"I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Boxerlovinglady's Quote and Photo du Jour

"When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings....As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects..." - Anais Nin

Quote du Jour: Kindness

"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves."
- Amelia Earhart

Quote du Jour: Wilderness and Hope

"Wilderness can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope."

- Wallace Stegner from the book The Sound of Mountain Water