Wisdom from some personal, flawed favorites

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

-Annie Dillard

Everything in the world is just the shadow of some real thing we cannot see
-Plato

I have no notion of loving people by halves it is not my nature.
-Jane Austen Northanger Abbey

~ by Kara Belcher on April 28, 2008.