Cartoon – Car ma
Author: Antarctica Journal
Barbara Bloom Quote – Filling The Cracks With Gold
“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.” – Barbara Bloom
Read moreDwight D. Eisenhower Quote – Privileges Above Principles
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
Read morePlutarch Quote – Character is simply habit long continued
“Character is simply habit long continued.” – Plutarch
Read morePope Francis Quote – Discover The True Meaning of Your Lives
“Let no one mislead you or prevent you from seeing what really matters. Turn to Jesus, listen to him, and discover the true meaning and direction of your lives.” – Pope Francis
Read moreCartoon – Capitalism
Secret Santa
An anonymous “Secret Santa” traveled to New Jersey and New York last week to hand out $100 bills to people who’d lost their homes and possessions in Hurricane Sandy. The Kansas City, Mo., businessman spent a day in Elizabeth, N.J., and Staten Island, N.Y., giving C-notes to the poor and homeless; he plans to give away $100,000 this holiday season. He was […]
Read moreWilliam James Quote – Afraid To Be Poor
“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the moneymaking street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of […]
Read moreCartoon – Before Cell Phones
Joan Didion Quote – Was It Only By Dreaming
“Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?” – Joan Didion
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