Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · Mar 14, 2017 01:08 AM

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Mar 14, 2017 03:05 PM by Magical Realist.)

"The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind."--Caroline Myss

“People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

**Secular Sanity** · Mar 14, 2017 03:56 PM

"Man is capable of doing what he is incapable of imagining. His head tills the galaxy of the absurd."—René Char

**Magical Realist** · Mar 15, 2017 07:20 PM

“If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.”
― Tim Burton

**Magical Realist** · Mar 16, 2017 06:14 PM

"When people say, "You really, really must" do something, it means you don't really have to. No one ever says, "You really, really must deliver the baby during labor." When it's true, it doesn't need to be said.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

**Magical Realist** · Mar 17, 2017 05:43 PM

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity”
― John Muir, Our National Parks

**BarnRat** · Mar 18, 2017 02:46 PM

"Do not speak of that of about which we talk of not speaking... about."
- Henry Hale

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Mar 18, 2017 03:40 PM by Magical Realist.)

"I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.”
― Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Mar 19, 2017 06:48 PM by Magical Realist.)

"True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves."---Mary Oliver

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Mar 20, 2017 05:54 PM by Magical Realist.)

“The American woods have been unnerving people for 300 years. The inestimably priggish and tiresome Henry David Thoreau thought nature was splendid, splendid indeed, so long as he could stroll to town for cakes and barley wine, but when he experienced real wilderness, on a visit to Katahdin in 1846, he was unnerved to the core. This wasn't the tame world of overgrown orchards and sun-dappled paths that passed for wilderness in suburban Concord, Massachusetts, but a forbidden, oppressive, primeval country that was "grim and wild . . .savage and dreary," fit only for "men nearer of kin to the rocks and wild animals than we." The experience left him, in the words of one biographer, "near hysterical.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

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