May 2013
1 post
April 2013
3 posts
If you believe what you like in the gospels,
and reject what you don’t like,
it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
~ St. Augustine
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
“Christians must be to the world what the soul is to the body.”
– Michael Voris
March 2013
3 posts
““The dictatorship of relativism is confronting the world. It does not...”
– Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,
Excerpts from his homily at the Conclave that elected him Pope
“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in...”
– Ian McEwan
February 2013
2 posts
“There is a mysterious alchemy in the putting together of rooms and houses....”
– Ben Pentreath, from English Decoration
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood...”
– Antione de Saint-Exupery
January 2013
4 posts
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may...”
– C.S. Lewis
lindasinklings:
And so Christmas break stretched on, a paper chain of days filled with sleep, reading, coffee, talking, and lots of chocolate, of course.
~ With Sea Salt
December 2012
3 posts
lindasinklings: gathering days...two hundred... →
I was moved to tears once again reading Linda’s words this week.
lindasinklings:
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It is different this year; too many things have happened in the past weeks to race toward Christmas with reckless abandon, tossing tinsel as though grief had no place. I find a sense of quiet waiting; a deep hope that trappings cannot duplicate.
That first Christmas was not adorned with bells,…
November 2012
2 posts
“Sometimes a memory is like a decorated Christmas tree: Over time we embellish it...”
– Jonathan Carroll
“And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for...”
– C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Plane
October 2012
4 posts
“We should do our utmost to encourage the beautiful, for the useful encourages...”
– Goethe
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be...”
– ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
“It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time....”
– Jhumpa Lahiri on the power of sentences, in a fantastic collection of writing advice from The Times.
September 2012
4 posts
“You must write every single day of your life. You must lurk in libraries and...”
– Ray Bradbury
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I...”
– excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s essay ’ On Three Ways of Writing for Children’
“Pattern and Snarl
Life likes a little mess. All patterns need a snarl.
The...”
– Excerpt from Smithsonian Magazine, September 2012
“Running is like flying: There’s a sense of freedom and mastery. It frees...”
– “Sully” Sullenberg, Runners World Oct. 2012
August 2012
9 posts
“Finally, here is a “guaranteed” way to lengthen your life. Childhood holidays...”
– Why the return journey feels quicker – a fascinating read on our perception of the passage of time. (via explore-blog)
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via theohpioneer)
“I think ‘creativity’ is better described as failing repeatedly until you get...”
– Seth Godin
Also see famous creators against the fear of failure
(via explore-blog)
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will...”
– Henry David Thoreau
jamaica makes: 10 Ideas in January →
Do something compelling. People are hungry for better. Make something better and people will notice. This is the best promotion.
Message dictates the proper aesthetic. Figure out what you want to say and what is important to you, then let the style follow.
Make hard decisions about what is important. Be ruthless. Most things aren’t important, just by the very nature of what “important” means....
“Happiness is a consequence of personal effort.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
This feels so right to me now, and works with my current mindset about how everything must be hard-earned for one to feel fully alive.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.”
– Proverbs 3:5
“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you...”
– Roald Dahl
July 2012
6 posts
“What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that...”
– Elsie De Wolf
“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered...”
– Douglas Adams
“And above all watch with glittering eyes the world all around you because the...”
– Roald Dahl
“Something of God flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.
— C.S. Lewis
“Look up into the heavens. Who created all the stars? He brings them out like an...”
– Isaiah 40:26
June 2012
1 post
“My best theory is this: When we are children, we invent these detailed imaginary...”
– I find this fascinating and look forward to reading more.
The Power of the Particular – David Brooks, who has previously admonished about the dangerous division of intuition and rationality, makes a case for finding your particularity and making it your purpose.
Brooks is the author of The Social...
May 2012
3 posts
“In order to be habitually creative, you have to know how to prepare to be...”
– Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit - Learn it and Use it for Life
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into...”
– – John Muir
April 2012
2 posts
“… everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don’t...”
– story people
“Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source...”
– Frederick Buechner
March 2012
4 posts
“Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.”
– Thoreau (via lindasinklings)
“Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed...”
– The New York Times’ Annie Murphy Paul explores the neuroscience of your brain on fiction and how narratives offer a way to engage the brain’s capacity to map other people’s intentions, known in psychology as “theory of mind.”
“On Radio 4’s Front Row earlier this week Andrew Stanton, the film-maker...”
– toast (uk) travels email 3/9/2012 