RTs are a Rorschach test.
RTs are not endorsements
Quotes
Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life
– Hunter S Thompson
Childhood & Puddles
The moment a puddle turns from an opportunity to an obstacle is when childhood has ended.
Christiane Amanpour
What are your aspirations?
I wanna go to Harvard and study journalism and political science.
On your way to being…
Christiane Amanpour.
Gilmore Girls, E01S02
Waking up late isn’t a real luxury.
Sleeping early is.
Moi
An old Somali proverb:
Me and my clan against the world;
Me and my family against my clan;
Me and my brother against my family;
Me against my brother.
Source: The Economist
P.S.: It’s not just the Somalis
Living in misery sucks marginally less than dying in it.
-House S05E20 Simple Explanation
‘You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away,’ she said to him once, when he asked why she had to be so upbeat the whole time.
From the book, A man called Ove
Money. Shame… Death?
Money may change everything, as Cyndi Lauper sang. But lack of money definitely ruins everything.
Financial impotence casts a pall of misery. It keeps you up at night and makes you not want to get up in the morning. It forces you to recede from the world. It eats at your sense of self-worth, your confidence, your energy, and, worst of all, your hope. It is ruinous to relationships, turning spouses against each other in tirades of calumny and recrimination, and even children against parents…
Financial insecurity is associated with depression, anxiety, and a loss of personal control that leads to marital difficulties…
My Secret Shame, in The New Yorker