"The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive."

-- Alan Watts

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“I live in a zoo I run scandals with savages”

Source : Song: Down And Out, Album: Purple Haze, 2004
“What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.”
“Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.”
“I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence for months. The thing to say to such people is: "See how *bad* a story you can write. See how dull you can be. Go ahead. That would be fun and interesting. I will give you ten dollars if you can write something thoroughly dull from beginning to end!" And of course, no one can.”
“The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.”
“It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.”
“All change is nothing but a decision. All decisions are controlled by what we link to pain and pleasure.”
“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious. We're graduating college. We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.”

Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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