“What I can tell you now is that if you want it to be, BC will always be your home.  Those relationships that mean so much to you will continue to, no matter where you are as long as you put in the effort.  And the school itself isn’t going anywhere….so don’t worry about that.  My only advice is that you remember what is most true about yourself.  Know what those things are and keep them in focus.  When problems come and frustration happens, if you can call to mind what you have learned about yourself from your experiences in the classroom, in friendships, on retreat, on a service trip, or wherever it may be, it can be a tremendous help.”

—Ryan Mulderrig, in a ‘goodbye seniors’ e-mail

The man seriously knows how to craft just the right message for any given situation.

The poets, then, did not invent the subject-matter of their sagas, but merely coloured the existing facts.

Lactantius, divinae institutiones, I, II, 23.

My lightbulb moment of “Art & Myth in Ancient Greece” class this semester is when I realized the sheer imaginations of the ancient Greeks.

When spring came, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

I’m having some thoughts. Do you, by chance, have any pen and paper?

More than just a physical space, he explained, a city is a set of cultural norms. “It’s kind of a shared dream.” Stop dreaming, stop continually making decisions to maintain it, and ivy creeps up the walls.

Gardner believed in love. She had little faith in her ability as an actress or a star; at each casting, it was said that she always thought they had the wrong girl. She could love well, however, no matter how formidable the object of her affection. Yet as each of her men worked his way through her heart, he also wore her down a little bit, until like Lady Brett Ashley, Gardner learned to cover her old wounds and aching heart with a sort of brash independence that held men at bay. Love in the abstract or the past tense became her ideal.

She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

Time together isn’t ever quite enough.
When we’re apart whatever are you thinking of?
What will it take to make or break this hint of love?
So tell me darling do you wish we’d fall in love?
All the time.

People think I’m a hippie—and I’d like to think I connect with the quote-unquote ‘hippie’ lifestyle—but no, I’m not really. I’m not all about free love and you can have sex with every single person, you know. I definitely have boundaries. But I do like to dress a little hippie-ish, and in my beauty products, I’m all about the more natural, the better.

I hope I take as much from life when I’m 50 as Jodie Foster seems to have. If you thought her speech was confusing at first (as did I) that’s because we’re not used to hearing people - interesting, free thinking people - speak in the rhythm of their own inner metronome. That was inspiring.

John Mayer, on Jodie Foster’s Golden Globes acceptance speech for the Cecil B. Demile Award

Echoing the sentiments expressed here; was so confused the entire duration of Jodie’s speech but by the end, everything came full circle.

You’re young, so you’d look good in anything.

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds… Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.

Neil Gaiman (you may as know him as the author of Coraline and the Sandman books)

Quote via Goodreads.