inspiration

Ways to add more quiet to your day

An interview with singer-songwriter Lizzy Shell

From Disneybound to modern Jane Austen

Sometimes it just takes a song, film, book, or painting to cut through feelings of struggle or ordinariness in marriage

What I learned from Willa Cather's Alexandra Bergson about resilience.

Time for neutrals to take a break

Learn how to choose "grace over guilt," and embrace your healthy side

Your painless guide to reading poetry.

Silence is more than the absence of noise.

There's more to Anne than meets the eye.

What would you say?

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Which one are you?

“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.”

“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”

“There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend only to one that errors harden into prejudices.”

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.”

“Everything has been done before. Do it better!”

“You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.”

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion . . . that is a friend who cares.”

“Winter is an etching, Spring a watercolor, Summer an oil painting, and Autumn a mosaic of them all.”