Today

"We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”

- William Golding, Lord of the Flies

"We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”

- N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

"See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little."

- John XXIII

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially."

- Ernest Hemingway

"And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,

They danced by the light of the moon."

- Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

"No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it."

- Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium

Time, time time, see what's become of me

While I looked around for my possibilities

I was so hard to please

- Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel

"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky,

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

That we may record our emptiness."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

- Mark Twain