#per

I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere. [Interview with Oprah Winfrey, June 5, 2007] ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#fiction #goals #guidance #novels #perfection

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that. ↗

— Elisabeth Rohm

#fall #hunger #life #love #made

Learn from them, baby. You got one life, never use it just to breathe. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#life

...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ... ↗

— John Geddes

#sensual-life #soul #superficial #wise-words #life

you’re already naked in this world in this time in this life beacause your next love your next hunger you next laughter and even your next tear may never come ↗

— Baharak Sedigh

#love #persian-poetry #poetry #life

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129) ↗

— Hilary Austen

#conventional-wisdom #effort #extreme-originality #genius #journey

Perfection doesn't exist ↗

— -Autumne Cothrum

#perfection #life

It's easy to be humble when your life's prosper. Nothing could be denigrated when life's so poor. ↗

— Toba Beta

#humble #life #poor #prosper #prosperity

If it looks a bit rough, a little worn, with little splotches - those have the swetest flavor. The ones that are perfect on the outside tend to be a bit more bland. That is true about many things in life. ↗

— Jeff Wheeler

#life

So it seems as though this part of us that is living a life on Earth is only a small piece or splinter of a much larger us. That we are many rather than one, or rather pieces of a more complex whole. We are only able to focus on the splinter we perceive as our totality. That is a good thing, because if we were aware of the complexity of it we would not be able to function in this world or reality. We are only able to see the facade that masks a much larger picture. Only now are we being allowed to peek behind the veil. ↗

— Dolores Cannon

#personality #life