#advice

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions. ↗

— M.M. Kaye

#common-sense #m-m-kaye #wisdom #common-sense

Sometimes life gets weird. Hang in there, it gets better. ↗

— Tanner Patrick

#believe #faith #hang-in-there #hope #it-gets-better

Wait, that’s your idea? That’s your expert advice? You’re going to tell these novelists to just keep going? You’re going to tell these honest, earnest writers: You gotta have faith? Those are George Michael lyrics, asshole. If they wanted that pep talk, they could just hang out inside a mall elevator. ↗

— Karen Russell

#humor #nanowrimo #pep-talk #writing #faith

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#breaking-down-assignment #childhood #encouragement #homework #project

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#advice #childhood #getting-started #incest #memoir

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#advice #broken-families #divorce #hope #kids

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing. ↗

— Chris Fabry

#life-lesson #marriage-advice #family

Dear Uncle Bernard - Your niece Frances - a four-eyed, French-plaited platypus awaiting the evaporation of h baby fat - thanks you very much for the romantic advice. But I've never been one to spend time thinking about why men and women take to each other, or why they don't. I think it can turn a lady neurotic, a term I despise but also am loath to have turned in my direction. ↗

— Carlene Bauer

#relationship #romantic-advice #friendship

Sometimes not much is just enough. ↗

— John O'Callaghan

#free #freedom #life #life-lesson #live

Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes ↗

— Bill Watterson

#calvin-and-hobbes #humor #humor