"The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness."

-- Joan Didion

#Home Quotes #Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.”
“One has to understand China correctly. Our management there consists of native Chinese, we produce locally and our suppliers also come from China. In this way, we too can also enjoy the cost advantages.”
“We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace.”
“That most people will not accept the fact that you are - and who was it that said that eventually Donald Trump is going to go on television and insists he never ran for president?”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.”

Source : Rachel Pollack (2002). “The Forest of Souls: A Walk Through the Tarot”, p.23, Llewellyn Worldwide
“Going back to something is harder than you think.”
“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
“lf youâ€™re going to deal with reality, youâ€™re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an individual. If you wanna grow up, which most people donâ€™t, the thing to do is take responsibility for your own reality and deal with it on your own terms. Donâ€™t expect that because you pay some money to somebody else or take a pledge or join a club or run down the street or wear a special bunch of clothes or play a certain sport or even drink Perrier water, itâ€™s going to take care of everything for you.”

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