#now

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#avoid #best #best way #die #follow

I don't know why people thought I was retiring. ↗

— Billy Joel

#know #people #retiring #thought #why

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#because #forgive #haste #knows #make

I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch. ↗

— Graham Kennedy

#i #interview #know #lunch #talking

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#being #bravery #knows #only #who

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ↗

— Erica Jong

#already #answer #ask #know #wish

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#because #chance #dear #enough #feel

The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#choice #continually #continue #cost #efficient

We could in fact transport a person, say a kid who didn't know what it was like to be in a civil rights march. We could actually take you into that experience, so that you could better appreciate what happened and why it happened. ↗

— Dexter S. King

#appreciate #better #civil #civil rights #could

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it. ↗

— Florence King

#about #been #best #cigarette #even