#nate

I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination. ↗

— Criss Jami

#artists #creativity #dr-jekyll #dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde #genius

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#empathy #empathy

How often do you find yourself saying, “In a minute”, “I’ll get to it” or “Tomorrow’s good enough” and every other possible excuse in the book? Compare it with how often you decide it’s got to be done, so let’s get on and do it! That should tell you just how serious your procrastinating problem really is. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#defer #delay #dilly-dallying #laziness #postpone

Both positive and negative thinking are contagious. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#defer #delay #dilly-dallying #laziness #postpone

The problem with procrastination is it’s been around since the beginning of time it seems. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#defer #delay #dilly-dallying #laziness #postpone

The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense. ↗

— Michelle M. Pillow

#fiction #internet #michelle-pillow #procrastinate #procrastination

She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#jonathan-safran-foer #love

Abel was brushing the snow off his parka while Micha was dancing around him, still balancing the plate of cookies, singing, 'We're staying, we're staying, we're staying overnight! We're drying! We're drying! We're drying on the line! ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#antonia-michaelis #funny #micha-and-abel #micha-tannatek #sweet

Anna took his hand to gauge the swelling. 'Let's at least put something cold around it. Frozen peas work pretty well.' 'Do I have to eat them?' 'No, you just have to inject them into a vein,' Anna said. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#abel-tannatek #antonia-michaelis #frozen-peas #funny #the-storyteller

When your defenses are down, it's alarming and beautiful - all that strength contained in a glass jar of innocence." He swallowed. "I've loved you since the moment you realized the astronomical odds of us meeting like that, because in that brief second, I watched you suddenly open your heart to the possibility of something magical happening - something unexpected. ↗

— Lynda Meyers

#letters-from-the-ledge #lftl #lynda-meyers #nate #quotes-of-life