November 30, 2023

The belly rules the mind.

- Spanish Proverb

November 29, 2023

November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.

- F. Sionil Jose

November 28, 2023

When we keep our silence we gather our power; when we speak we let loose the concentration of quiet reverie.

- Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

November 27, 2023

Santa Claus is anyone who loves another and seeks to make them happy; who gives himself by thought or word or deed in every gift that he bestows.

- Edwin Osgood Grover

November 26, 2023

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

November 25, 2023

"The show’s not over until the mockingjay sings," she said. "The mockingjay?" He laughed. "Really, I think you’re just making these things up." "Not that one. A mockingjay’s a bona fide bird,” she assured him. "And it sings in your show?" he asked. "Not my show, sweetheart. Yours. The Capitol’s anyway."

- Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

November 24, 2023

Sometimes, the most productive thing that you can do is to step outside and do nothing... relax and enjoy nature.

- Melanie Charlene