#dec

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#financial #friend #future #healthy #her

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#declined #enthusiasm #everything #grandma #hand

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#boyhood #decades #last #life #like

I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#chanel #decided #holland #i #me

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#art #decision #ensemble #long #long time

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#decide #foolish #me #philosopher #poet

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#blues #count #decided #direct #discover

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#each #either #europeans #i #less

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#government #hesitate #i #latter #left

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#bodily #body #decay #gloomy #human