Category: Song of the Day

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to...

But when the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground, and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened. -- Plenty Coups, Crow Chief, in Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation by Jonathan Lear It has been...

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. -- Kafka My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about...

For many years, when asked to name my favorite song of all time, I have had a ready answer: Neil Young's 'Winterlong.' I once told someone that if they listened to 'Winterlong' - the version that appears on Decade - they would then understand everything that I love in...

Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life – a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy... To be...

Charlie Brown: I’m lonely. I feel that no one really cares about me. How can I cure this loneliness?Lucy: Get some friends! Five cents, please...— Charles Schulz, Peanuts Crank up the Wayback Machine, Mr. Peabody. Set the dial to a church retreat, eons ago in the...

Etheline: Chas came home.Margot: What do you mean?Etheline: He and Ari and Uzi are going to stay with me for a little while.Margot: Why are they allowed to do that?...That night, Etheline found all of her children living together under the same roof for the first time...

Eli: I'm not in love with you any more.Margot: I didn't think you ever were.Eli: Let's not make this harder than it already is.Margot: OK.Eli: OK what?Margot: OK, I'm not in love with you any more either.-- from The Royal Tenenbaums What is that feeling when you're...

To have some suffering is very important. You learn from suffering, and against that background, you can recognize happiness. -- Thich Nhat Hanh Suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning. -- Søren...

The biggest danger, that of losing oneself, can pass off in the world as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. is bound to be noticed. -- Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard argued that an earthly...