by shenion | Apr 3, 2023 | Quote of the Week
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
by shenion | Mar 20, 2023 | Quote of the Week
It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
by shenion | Mar 13, 2023 | Quote of the Week
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no...
by shenion | Mar 8, 2023 | Quote of the Week
In your rainbow journey toward the realization of personal goals, don’t make choices based only on your security and your safety. Nothing is safe. That is not to say that anything ever was, or that anything worth achieving ever should be. Things of value seldom are....
by shenion | Mar 1, 2023 | Quote of the Week
Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don’t mean the times...
by shenion | Feb 21, 2023 | Quote of the Week
I realised my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn’t make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn’t make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not...
