Category: Quotes
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The real things haven’t changed.
“The real things haven\’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.” ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Oh, it was all so simple.
I did an interview in the late ’80s with a mother who had watched her son die. She crawled into bed with him as he was dying. And his last words were, “Oh, it was all so simple.” And then he smiled. When she said that, I got chills. We’re going to take our last…
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Always be different
“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different. Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself. A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.” Coco Chanel
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The ones for me
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”…
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What makes you come alive?
Self portrait, taking a photo in Carmel California \”Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.\”Howard Thurman
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Burning both ends
\”For three years straight, I\’ve been burning the candle at both ends, and as of last December, I just didn\’t have anything left. I\’ve been so aggressive about living life to the fullest and being plugged into everything, but now I\’ve ripped the plug out of the wall and put it on the floor for…
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Alex in Wonderland
At a certain part in your life. Probably when too much of it has gone by. You will open your eyes and see yourself for who you are. Especially for everything that made you so different from all the awful normals. And you will say to yourself, “But I am this person.” And in that…
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Glamour
“The contrast between what is glamorous now and what was glamorous in the days of Cary Grant and Norma Shearer says much about how American society has changed. Glamour used to present an idealized version of adulthood. Now it presents an idealized version of adolescence. In the old days, glamour was all about unattainability, i.e.,…
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By Letting it Go!
We shall all be very much happier when we learn to transform the things we have into a semblance of our ideal. How, then, may we go about accomplishing our ideal?By letting it go!By forgetting this vaguely pleasing dream, this evidence of our smug vanity, and making ourselves ready for a new ideal.By considering the…
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Introverts
Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk? Who has to be dragged to parties and then needs the rest of the day to recuperate?…
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First Time Advice
\”I\’ve never ridden in a convertible before!\”\”Then I guess you\’re about ready.\”From the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
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Making It
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” George Bernard Shaw
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Shadow Girl
\”Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one\’s own sunshine.\” Ralph Waldo Emerson. Often I hear people complain how others hold them back yet I\’ve come to the conclusion that the only thing that can stop one from getting off their own ass is their unwillingness to stand. For moving…
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It\’s OK to be fabulous
I\’d like to share a quote that says so perfectly what I tried to in a previous post. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.We ask ourselves, Who am I to be…
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Don\’t look for the bad
\”When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.\”Abraham Lincoln
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And the day came
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin
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Ordinary acts
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.Thomas Moore, 19th-century poet.
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Choice
I believe we always have a choice, even if it\’s just between hard and harder.