Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Sep 12, 2022 04:39 AM by Magical Realist.)

“Shit is the tofu of cursing and can be molded to whichever condition the speaker desires. Hot as shit. Windy as shit. I myself was confounded as shit...”
― David Sedaris

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Sep 12, 2022 09:53 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Whoever has no house now, will never have one.
Whoever is alone will stay alone,
will sit, read, write long letters through the evening,
and wander on the boulevards, up and down,
restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing.”
― Reiner Maria Rilke

**Magical Realist** · Sep 13, 2022 07:29 AM

**Magical Realist** · Sep 14, 2022 07:40 PM

“Let it all go, one foot in the grave and one bag packed. We shall go to our end in the warm glow of the past, burning up the memories, all the clutter given back.”
― Peter Pouncey, Rules for Old Men Waiting

**Magical Realist** · Sep 14, 2022 09:14 PM

“Empathy has no script. There is no right way or wrong way to do it. It's simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of 'You're not alone'.”
― Brené Brown

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Sep 15, 2022 08:42 PM by Magical Realist.)

"We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest." ~Carson McCullers

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Sep 16, 2022 07:20 PM by Magical Realist.)

"Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”
― Joseph Campbell

**Magical Realist** · Sep 16, 2022 10:35 PM

When you realize Monday isn't going to be so bad afterall..

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Sep 17, 2022 09:32 PM by Magical Realist.)

"We were made and set here to give voice to our astonishments.”---Annie Dillard

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Sep 18, 2022 11:53 PM by Magical Realist.)

"I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas."
~Johnny Cash