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Raison d'etre
I have found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal, and hence most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many other people. It has led me to believe that what is most personal and unique in each one of us is probably the very element which would, if it were shared or expressed, speak most deeply to others.
—Carl Rogers
We may misunderstand, but we do not misexperience.
—Vine Deloria
What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
—Theodore Roethke
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
—Anne Lamott
I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization, you can't just swallow it whole.
—Frank Zappa
Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 9:39PM
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down upon us. But pigs regard us as equals.
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