#own

Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list. ↗

— Patti Digh

#prioritize #relax #simplify #slow-down #to-do-list

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#enough #get #holding #holding on #ideas

In truth I suspect that merely slowing down is not a very satisfying answer. What I need has less to do with my pace of life than my peace of life. At any speed, I crave a deep and lasting inner peace. And if it's solace I'm after, I don't need to pace myself like a turtle, change jobs or set up house on a quiet island. It is usually frenetic living, not high energy, that robs my peace of mind. ↗

— Steve Goodier

#inner-peace #pace #peace #peace-of-mind #peacefulness

I wrote this life in pencil so I could always make a change ↗

— Marc D Brown

#words-of-marc-d-brown #wordsofmdbrown #change

This all comes down to what we know about life on Earth. ↗

— Margaret Turnbull

#comes #down #earth #know #life

It's only water," she said. "Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#drown #water #death

It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind? ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#act #any #attack #been #centuries

Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore. ↗

— Annie Proulx

#homesick #old-life #life

I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it. ↗

— Dianne Wiest

#anything #down #enough #film #i

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns. ↗

— Katherine Applegate

#horror #death