It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.
I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.
Think of the actual physical elements that compose our bodies: we are 98 percent hydrogen and oxygen and carbon. That's table sugar. You are made of the same stuff as table sugar. Just a couple of tiny differences here and there and look what happened to the sugar: it can stand upright and send tweets.
And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.
The truth about not having everything you need, not being fully equipped or qualified or allowed is that these limits are the nebula of creative genius. When you have total freedom i. e: no limits at all. You stop trying to make the best of things
Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.
Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being in control is taking responsibility for how you feel. This means not just admitting to uncomfortable feelings but then examining your circumstances to see what can be done to change these feelings at the source.
You may have heard about living today, tomorrow, or "tonow. " Tonow, children tell us, is a gift, which is why we call it "the present. " Children understand that tonow is the place to live. The present is really the only moment we have. Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.
Fans don't boo nobodies.
To dance is to live. . . to live is to dance.
All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud.