• The past is a great teacher, but a horrible landlord. Don’t live there. -Unknown
  • "Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. Isaac Newton
  • There are two religions in the world the religion of being right and the religion of being in love, and you can’t be a member of both at the same time. (via https://annehelen.substack.com/p/when-you-realize-youre-on-the-wrong)
  • "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am." Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
  • "She was lost in her longing to understand." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
  • "You don’t need water to feel like you’re drowning, do you?" Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
  • "I didn’t need you to fix me. I needed you to love me while I fix myself." Michelle K., Fixing Myself
  • "We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week...The bottom is out of the Universe." Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling
  • "Where there's tea there's hope." Arthur Wing Pinero
  • "Making people laugh released a certain kind of hot lava into my body that made me feel like a queen." http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/10/14/131014fa_fact_poehler Amy Poehler
  • "It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass." Eudora Welty
  • "You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it." Susan Orlean
  • "Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable." David Foster Wallace
  • "I have so much of you in my heart." John Keats
  • "Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." Swedish proverb
  • "I was born to stand out. I don't care whether or not people will find me attractive on screen. That's not why I became an actor. I know that more and more with each new role." Gabourey Sidibe
  • "To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous." Elizabeth Gilbert
  • "Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim." Tyler Knott Gregson
  • "Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place." Robert Brault
  • On love "And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away." John Steinbeck
  • "You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn’t doing anyone any favors, least of all you. Insulting a woman’s looks when they have nothing to do with the issue at hand implies a lack of comprehension on your part, an inability to engage in high-level thinking. You may think she’s ugly, but everyone else thinks you’re an idiot." Hillary Clinton
  • "Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it’s not something where – if you missed it by age 19 – you’re finished. It’s never too late. Your writing will only get better as you get older and wiser. If you write something beautiful and important, and the right person somehow discovers it, they will clear room for you on the bookshelves of the world – at any age. At least try." Elizabeth Gilbert
  • "But I guess ultimately what scares me about marriage is where do you find this person? You know a lot of times, most successful relationships, people meet through work, school, mutual friends. But what’s most interesting to me is when people just meet in life, just randomly. You know, I have a friend, he got married, I asked him like 'Hey, uh, where’d you meet your wife?' He was like 'I was leaving Bed, Bath & Beyond. I was looking for my car - I drive a gray Prius. I saw a different gray Prius, I thought it was mine, I walked up to it, I realized I had the wrong car, but I bumped into Carol, we started talking, that was that'. That’s unbelievable. Think about all the random factors that had to come together to make this one moment possible - this one moment that changed these two people’s entire lives: First off, this guy has to live in this particular town. Then he has to get a gray Prius. Then he has to need to go to Bed, Bath & Beyond. Then he has to go to that particular Bed, Bath & Beyond. Then there has to be another guy who also lives in town, also drives a gray Prius, also needs to go to Bed, Bath & Beyond, also goes to that particular Bed, Bath & Beyond at around the same time. Then they have to both park somewhat near each other, my friend has to leave before the other guy leaves, see the wrong Prius, think it’s his, walk up to it. Then the woman, Carol, needs to be near the wrong gray Prius for a million other random reasons. They bump into each other, they start talking, their entire lives are changed. That’s the most amazing and terrifying thing about life. It is, cause the amazing thing is that at any moment, any one of us can have that moment that totally changes our lives. You could be leaving the show tonight, bump into someone… it could change your life. You don’t know, that could happen. The terrifying thing is… what if we’re all supposed to be at Bed Bath & Beyond right now?" -Aziz Ansari, Buried Alive
  • "Revolutionists as well as religionists often forget that heaven doesn't come in 1 big bang. It comes in many steps." -Pete Seeger
  • "I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual...." -William James
  • "Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do them. Doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that’s what life is." - Amy Poehler
  • "The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life." Bruce Jenner
  • "Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular." - Joseph Campbell
  • "Dear Ten-Year-Old Self, Before you ask me when you have your first kiss or if you’ll ever have a boyfriend, I need to tell you some more important stuff first. What’s more important than a first kiss, you ask? Plenty. First of all, don’t let that kid in your class, Danny, who called you fat, make you self-consciously wear oversized sweatshirts for the next four years to hide your body. That kid is horrible and years from now he will be boring and bald and trying to get in touch with you to come to the set of the TV show you work on. No, you don’t work on “Cheers”. That show’s not on the air anymore. That would’ve been awesome, though. Another thing: Say thank you, always. Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion. When you’re grateful, people are attracted to you. Also: Make sure you appreciate Mom and Dad. Yes, they never seem to let you do anything now except read books. Once you turn 18 you’ll never get to live with them again, and you’ll live far away, and you will miss them so much it hurts. Next: Learn forgiveness and bestow it generously. Finally: Don’t let anyone give you any crap. Mastering a balance of these last two will take you a lifetime, so you had better get started now." -Mindy Kaling
  • "Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." Andy Warhol
  • "You are gold. Do not / set yourself on fire to keep / other people warm." -Sade Andria Zabala (surfandwrite) | A Haiku On Self-Love
  • "Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude." -Martin Luther King Jr.
  • "As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison." -Nelson Mandela
  • "Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it." -Mason Cooley
  • "As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don’t deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity. To the degree that we’ve been avoiding uncertainty, we’re naturally going to have withdrawal symptoms—withdrawal from always thinking that there’s a problem and that someone, somewhere, needs to fix it." -Pema Pema Chodron
  • The sound becomes a congregation and they're singing like a bluebird in the round -Foo Fighters
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