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Black-and-white portrait of Ernest Hemingway from the side as he types a manuscript.

Quotes of the Month — April 2026

  • Posted 01 April 2026
  • By Adrienne Grace
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This month features 3 quotes — 2 by Ernest Hemingway and 1 by Charles Bukowski — about the futility and waste of wars.

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Malala Yousafzai illustrated book cover.

Quote of the Month — March 2026

  • Posted 02 March 2026
  • By Adrienne Grace
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I don’t mind it if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education. And I’m afraid of no one. — Malala Yousafzai

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Illustrated book covers for Real Friends, showing kids standing in a group, and Best Friends, showing kids at the top of a roller coaster.

Quote of the Month — February 2026

  • Posted 02 February 2026
  • By Adrienne Grace
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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Black-and-white portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1967.

Quote of the Month — January 2026

  • Posted 02 January 2026
  • By Adrienne Grace
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If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

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Book cover of The Gatherings, Reimagining Indigenous-settler relations.

Quote of the Month — December 2025

  • Posted 01 December 2025
  • By Adrienne Grace
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What I have come to understand is that everyone is a Light. The skin is only a blanket, and underneath that blanket is Light. When a Circle is made, it makes all the Lights brighter, and that gets the attention of the Spirits – the Grandmothers and Grandfathers. It doesn’t […]

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Headshot of an older caucasian woman with shoulder-length grey hair in a colorful, floral shirt.

Quotes of the Month — November 2025

  • Posted 01 November 2025
  • By Adrienne Grace
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This month’s quotes by Mary Oliver and Robin Wall Kimmerer share a theme of joy over despair, rejoicing in the beauty of the natural world.

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Portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quote of the Month — October 2025

  • Posted 01 October 2025
  • By Adrienne Grace
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. If we want to turn over a new leaf and really set a new humanity afoot, we must begin to turn humankind away from the long and desolate night of violence.

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Book cover for Active Hope, featuring a Canadian Goose as a silhouette against the sunrise across the water. Mountains are visible in the far distance.

Quote of the Month — September 2025

  • Posted 31 August 2025
  • By Adrienne Grace
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This month’s quote is by Joanna R. Macy, American environmental activist, Buddhist scholar, and translator of poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke

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