If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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The best way to know life is to love many things.
It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Everything is habit forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense, to fear no longer the terror that flieth by night, yet to feel truly and understand a little, a very little, of the story of life.
I like to think the world wasn’t ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn’t ready for the world. I’ve always arrived too late for my life.
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
We are unusual and tragic and alive.
I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I’m not a ‘little bit’ kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.
I don't know if I'm unhappy because I'm not free, or if I'm not free because I'm unhappy.
— Jean-Luc Godard, Patricia Franchini, Jean Seberg, amazon.com
It seems to me that I’m a tourist to life…I’m an observer of it.
One will weave the canvas; another will fell a tree by the light of his ax. Yet another will forge nails, and there will be others who observe the stars to learn how to navigate. And yet all will be as one. Building a boat isn’t about weaving canvas, forging nails, or reading the sky. It’s about giv…
Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination
There’s a place in the soul where you’ve never been wounded.
Taking crazy things seriously is ― a serious waste of time.
I don’t think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.
Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t…If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
Never blame another person for your personal choices – you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.
All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.