#if

Odessans' worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse? ↗

— Janet Skeslien Charles

#fear #life #change

Some mistakes...just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you ↗

— Jojo Moyes

#change

Try and avoid people who use the word "cant" regularly associate rather with those who say "can" and do ↗

— rassool jibraeel snyman

#motivational-quotes #philosophical #philosophy #philosophy-of-life #motivational

Fear is unconscious thought, the perception of being denied the realization of satisfying that in which we perceive to need... ↗

— Namasté Anonymous

#fear #freedom #hope #inspiration #inspirational

Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#movies

One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#literature #change

The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#did #everyone #first #i #lifeguard

Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it. ↗

— Richard Matturro

#beauty #culture #life #meaning #spiritual

Jane remembers those years, though, as if they had been [a movie]--in part because her friends...always talked about everything as if it was over ("Remember last night?"), while holding out the possibility that whatever happened could be rerun. Neil didn't have that sense of things. He thought people shouldn't romanticize ordinary life. "Our struggles, our little struggles," he would whisper, in bed, at night. Sometimes he or she would click on some of the flashlights and consider the ceiling, with the radiant swirls around the bright nuclei, the shadows like opened oysters glistening in brine. (In the '80s, the champagne was always waiting.) ↗

— Ann Beattie

#ordinariness #ordinary-life #men

Try to roll with the punches. Keep your chin up. Don’t take any wooden nickels. Vote Democrat in every election. Ride your bike in the park. Dream about my perfect, golden body. Take your vitamins. Drink eight glasses of water a day. Pull for the Mets. Watch a lot of movies. Don’t work too hard at your job. Take a trip to Paris with me. Come to the hospital when Rachel has her baby and hold my grandchild in your arms. Brush your teeth after every meal. Don’t cross the street on a red light. Defend the little guy. Stick up for yourself. Remember how beautiful you are. Remember how much I love you. Drink one Scotch on the rocks every day. Breathe deeply. Keep your eyes open. Stay away from fatty foods. Sleep the sleep of the just. Remember how much I love you. ↗

— Paul Auster

#inspirational #life #love #peace #attitude