The weight of it all

 We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance, and wealth with happiness.

Tom Waits

 In some Native languages the term for plants translates to 'those who take care of us'.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

After ten days

 Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

Emmylou Harris

That which does not kill you

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Redd Foxx

When you don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to do.

Oprah Winfrey

 

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. 

Annie Leibovitz

 

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. 

Robin Williams

 

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. 

Orison Swett Marden

 I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.”

― Charles Bukowski, Pulp

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass. 

David Lee Roth

 

You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.

— Melissa Etheridge 

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.   

-Roseanne Barr

 

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.Steve Jobs

 

All Fungi are edible.

Some fungi are only edible once.

-Terry Pratchett

 

Life is a fragile hybrid throbbing, at each instant, between being and nothingness.

Roger Gilbert-Lecomte

It always seemed to me that the herbaceous peony is the very epitome of June. Larger than any rose,

it has something of the cabbage rose's voluminous quality; and when it finally drops from the vase, it

sheds its petticoats with a bump on the table, all in an intact heap, much as a rose will suddenly fall,

making us look up from our book or conversation, to notice for one moment the death of what had

still appeared to be a living beauty. 

- Vita Sackville-West

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

- Christian Louboutin

Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated by self-destruction. As a German saying puts it: 'Better an end with terror than a terror without end.”

― Robert E. Neale, The Art of Dying

 

In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.

Shekhar Kapur

 

Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.

― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl