#pro

I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate it. 'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#madness #prozac #boredom

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#providence #trials #trials

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#self-awareness #self-discovery #discovery

The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield. ↗

— Naomi Klein

#war #capitalism

I honk at protestors to show my support, and also tell them to get the fuck out of my way. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #protest #funny

Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#joss-whedon #pro-feminist #whedon #funny

Hopeless and helpless doth AEgeon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#procrastination

Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly. ↗

— C. Kennedy

#writing-advice #writing-craft #writing-humor #writing-philosophy #writing-process

When you procrastinate you become a slave to yesterday. ↗

— Stephen McCranie

#procrastination

Information overload (on all levels) is exactly WHY you need an "ignore list". It has never been more important to be able to say "No ↗

— Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#how-to-focus #saying-no #stay-focused #procrastination