Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.
Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?
It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.
You were born to be amazing.
Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.
A house is never small or empty, when filled with love.
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the fu...
Readers are the glue that binds the books together.