Quotes of: Us-weekly Keyword

Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is in us. And for me, that sense of belonging elevates, not denigrates, the ego.

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Never underestimate the power of cookies.

Sushi Secrets: Easy Recipes for the Home Cook. Prepare delicious sushi at home using sustainable local ingredients!

It must be comforting, to have a faith like that. To believe so concretely that there’s someone—something— out there watching guard, keeping us safe, testing us only with what we can handle.

Saving June

The webs spun by our existence had gracefully overlapped and knotted until you could not have one without the other. We were infinitely intertwined.

Someone I Used to Know

I felt like an integral part of my being had just been ripped out of me, only to have it replaced with something that did not belong.

Somebody I Used to Know

No matter the source of our creation let us give honor to that source.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

Memoirs of a Geisha

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.

My First Summer in the Sierra

Oh Lord, make us able To eat all that's on this table, And if there's some we haven't got Bring it to us while it's hot

Nathan Coulter

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

No Man Is an Island

All these people like my mother paying counselors and clinics to reattach them to reality; all of us people here paying Sony and Sega to reattach us to unreality.

number9dream

Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions.

Not All of Us Are Saints: A Doctor's Journey with the Poor

500. There are paradoxes. If there were no night, we would be deprived of the magnificent image of a starry sky. Thus light deprives us of "vision," and darkness helps us "see.

Notes from Prison

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

The Name of the Wind

Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our?

The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

The time has come to harness the blessed power within us and to use it to transcend from our current existence into a more empowered reality.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.

Love Is the Higher Law

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

Letters to a Young Poet

Let us hush this cry of 'Forward', till ten thousand years have gone.

Loksley Hall, Day Dream and Other Poems

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim. – Linton Weeks, Washington Post, 13 January 2001

The Librarian's Book of Quotes

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories