"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."
Carol Burnett
07 Sep 2016
Browsing tag: life
24 Aug 2016
“People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.”
Sister Helen Prejean
14 Aug 2016
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
John Lennon
12 Aug 2016
"There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive."
David Attenborough
07 Aug 2016
I must have been about nine or ten years old when I encountered the word “ochre”. I didn’t know what it meant and I must have read it in a sentence something along the lines of, ‘The leaves on the tree had turned ochre.’ I remember looking up the word to make sense of it and probably found a definition along the lines of, ‘An earthy pigment containing ferric oxide typically with clay, varying from light yellow to brown or red.' My confusion would have expanded further, when trying to understand how to pronounce the word I would
05 Aug 2016
"You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways."
Iris Apfel
27 Jul 2016
"One's life has many compartments." Harold Pinter
26 Jul 2016
"Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay."
Simone de Beauvoir
24 Jul 2016
Do you believe in luck? I grew up in a family with a mother steeped in superstition and she was forever on the prowl for lucky chances. Perhaps because she believed her life was so luck-less or maybe it was linked to her alleged gypsy heritage. Knock over the salt and she was flicking three pinches over her left shoulder. Walk past a statue of a Buddha and you had to rub its belly and make sure it was facing East. God help the child that put new shoes on the kitchen counter and may your forsaken soul find redemption if you opened
29 Jun 2016
"You've got to bumble forward into the unknown."
Frank Gehry