It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
— John Updike
Category: quote
Do not go gently…
Someone, a remainer, said they were so pissed with the Prime Minister’s obduracy that they’d now accept a quick Brexit, if it just ends the current drama.
All that I’ve been thinking of since are two of my favourite lines from a poem…
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
*Goose Bumps*
… you’re always sort of nervous to get emails from people you want to get emails from …
— Alyssa Mastromonaco, in ‘Who thought this was a good idea?’
Might get better in a couple of hours
The weather, or me?
—Source forgotten, or maybe it was just my head
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
— Leonard Bernstein
Believing in the impossible…
The Queen said to Alice, “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
—Ashley Eckstein, quoting ‘Alice in Wonderland’ in her Morning Routine
Traveller..
Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.
– Malika Favre
Lazy vs Early
Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
—Robert Heinlein
I wish you courage…
I wish you courage
I wish you rushing blood
A heart that beats too hard
Feelings that make everything too hard
Love that gets out of control
The most intense adventures
I hope you find your way out
I hope you’re the kind of person
Who gets a happy ending
—Fredrik Backman, in ‘Us against you’
The pursuit of happiness
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
—Nick Offerman