#ran

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss. ↗

— Pat Riley

#guarantees #lose #loss #permission #yourself

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#enters #future #happens #into #itself

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

#did #early #exploring #france #free

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant. ↗

— Alexandra Ripley

#books #cereal #deodorant #like #perfume

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects. ↗

— George Ripley

#attaining #besides #desired #effects #foolish