February 25

Daily Wisdom

Daily Inspiration

Celeste Foley

“And thinking over the long pilgrimage of his past he accepted it joyfully. He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but now he also saw that by reason of it he had acquired that power of introspection which had given him so much delight. Without it he would never have had his keen appreciation of beauty, his passion for art and literature, and his interest in the varied spectacle of life. The ridicule and the contempt which had so often been heaped upon him had turned his mind inward and called forth those flowers which he felt would never lose their fragrance. Then he saw that the normal was the rarest thing in the world. Everybody had some defect, of body or of mind…At this moment he could feel a holy compassion for them all.”  

                                     W. Somerset Maugham

                                     Of Human Bondage

“Everybody Hurts”

~ REM