You've got to learn to leave the table
When love's no longer being served
Showing posts with label Life Lessons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life Lessons. Show all posts
19.1.17
13.9.16
22.5.16
5.5.16
Imprescindible
No trates de vivir contra la vida.
No destruyas lo que el movimiento te ofrece para estar tranquilo.
No destruyas lo que el movimiento te ofrece para estar tranquilo.
Roberto Bolaño
3.4.16
1.1.15
The Only Pertinent Resolution
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
- Dorothy Parker
7.9.14
30.6.14
19.2.14
20.6.13
Generic Neuroses
'If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.'
- Tim Kreider, in a terrific essay on anxiety
7.7.12
Life Lesson #15
"You have to care a little less about how it's going to be."
[Courtesy of Jules Bakshi, free bird, spirit guide and, fortunately, sister.]
2.12.11
Life Lesson #14
You can't stop people from engaging with other people in ways you wish they wouldn't.
[And you'll never stop wishing you could.]
[And you'll never stop wishing you could.]
13.11.11
27.10.11
Life Lesson #12
Seeing is essential; showing is incidental.
[Laugh; forget the joke. Look; forget to lure. Thrill, throw your head back; forget to tell. Peer through, push down on the shutter release, and forget the film at the bottom of a backpack for several months afterward.]
[Laugh; forget the joke. Look; forget to lure. Thrill, throw your head back; forget to tell. Peer through, push down on the shutter release, and forget the film at the bottom of a backpack for several months afterward.]
18.10.11
Life Lesson #11
Rescue is not romance.
[Even if it feels like it at first, it really isn't, I promise.]
[Even if it feels like it at first, it really isn't, I promise.]
15.9.11
Life Lesson #10
It is every lemon's responsibility to make itself into lemonade.
[And if it is lucky enough to be very slightly juicier or more fragrant than some of the others, it means only that it needs to be squeezed harder.]
[And if it is lucky enough to be very slightly juicier or more fragrant than some of the others, it means only that it needs to be squeezed harder.]
13.6.11
25.3.11
Life Lesson #9
Always resist being your own biggest obstacle.
[Even though you very likely always will be.]
[Even though you very likely always will be.]
16.12.10
24.8.10
Life Lesson #7 - The Paradox Edition
Every minute spent lamenting is another minute to be lamented.
[I should write for Hallmark.]
[I should write for Hallmark.]
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