When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
— Henri Nouwen
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me.
— George Orwell, 1984
Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain.
She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.
— Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
The only way to truly escape the mundane is for you to constantly be evolving. Whether you choose to aim high, or aim low. Enjoy each day for what it is.
— Izaya Orihara
Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
— William Saroyan
Men aren’t stupid, and you don’t need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here’s the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything.
— Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup
Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
— Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.
— Elvis Presley
A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
— Michael Caine
The South is more than a region - it’s a state of mind, and Southerners seem forever returning there.
— The Book of Southern Wisdom
Buy less, buy better, and really wear it.
— Michael Bastian
If they don’t need you, it’s okay, you do not live for other people.
— Kyo
The truth about Chanel’s bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she’s wearing pearls.
— Karen Karbo, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World’s Most Elegant Woman
