#are

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#america #american #experience #fact #helped

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#country #depressed #different #different way #eat

Treat yourself like a fast person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck--you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one." --Push: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, p. 214 ↗

— Chalene Johnson

#career #diet #fitness #goals #health

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#psychotherapist #secrets #self-awareness #visions #dreams

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#before #dared #darkness #deep #doubting

Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#blessings #carpe-diem #dance #enthusiasm #express

I've spent most of my life trying to make it to a future that still hasn't happened, or avoid a past that won't let me go. I don't remember when I've ever just stopped to live in the present, to hold on to the seconds I'm in. ~ Emma ↗

— Rebecca Donovan

#rebecca-donovan #the-breathing-series #life

As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#careers #writers #faith

I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#nightmares #dreams

He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close. ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

#desire #dreams #love #meant-to-be #past-lives