“Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine losing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time. In twenty years I'd be interviewing air and water and hea…”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are…”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it's worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these thing…”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be.”— Dale Wasserman, amazon.com
“I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“You can let your imagination go wild with a Vision Board, and place pictures of all the things you want, and pictures of how you want your life to be. Make sure you put the Vision Board in a place where you see it and look at it every day.”— Rhonda Byrne, amazon.com
“Expectation is a powerful attractive force, because it draws things to you. As Bob Proctor says, ‘Desire connects you with the thing desired and expectation draws it into your life.’ Expect the things you want, and don’t expect the things you don’t want. What do you expect now?”— Rhonda Byrne, amazon.com
“Life happens to everyone, but the world owes you nothing. Fight for what you want and pay for it with your own sweat and tears. It becomes so much more rewarding that way too.”— Gloria Atanmo, gumroad.com
“Whatever happens in certain phases of life, it’ll either be a good time or a good story. Embrace them both.”— Gloria Atanmo, gumroad.com