daily contemplation

"We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all."

~ Joan Didion

"If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days."

~ Robin Williams

"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."

~ Sophocles