Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · Sep 11, 2019 07:52 PM

"Everything is better against the backdrop of a gloomy autumn day. Food is better. Coffee is better. TV is better. Music is better. Traveling is better. Everything acquires an almost literary meaningfulness and a nostalgic longing for days gone by. Everything is an excuse to contemplate and reflect on the human condition. There is a depth and interiority in everything that is experienced."---MR

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Sep 13, 2019 07:44 PM by Magical Realist.)

“We are all future butterflies who think, wrongly, that we are just slugs. And we are evolving, whether we admit it or not, into something else. Something with wings.”
― Jeffrey J. Kripal, Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal

**Magical Realist** · Sep 16, 2019 04:06 PM

“But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”
― Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

**Leigha** · Sep 17, 2019 03:17 AM

''Life life to the fullest; it has an expiration date.'' - Unknown

**Magical Realist** · Sep 17, 2019 04:26 PM

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

**Magical Realist** · Sep 18, 2019 08:42 PM

“For those who find it remarkable that we live in a universe of Something, just wait. Nothingness is heading on a collision course right toward us.”
― Christopher Hitchens

**Magical Realist** · Sep 19, 2019 07:52 PM

“That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Sep 21, 2019 07:07 PM by Magical Realist.)

“By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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**Magical Realist** · Sep 24, 2019 06:49 PM

“Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Pieces of White Shell

**Magical Realist** · Sep 25, 2019 07:12 AM

“I am no wise man. Every day shows me how little I know about life, and how wrong I can be. But there are things I know to be true. I know I will die. And I know that the only sane response to such a horror is to love.”
― Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes