"Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience."

-- Diane Arbus

#People Quotes #Worry Quotes #Traumatic Experiences Quotes

“A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.”
“The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.”
“If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.”
“Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?”
“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”
“I've spent a lot of my early twenties focusing on other people as opposed to myself. Being madly in love with people and putting them first and not necessarily putting myself under a microscope. It's unsettling but I'm trying to be the kind of person that can be alone, at peace with himself. Making most recent album, I felt braver putting stuff into songs than I do bringing them up in conversation. Which makes no logical sense. Lyrically, there was a lot less hiding behind suns and moons and stars.”
“Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever.”
“I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.”

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