#ife

Introvert conversations are like jazz, where each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo. And like jazz, once we get going, we can play all night. Extrovert conversations are more like tennis matches, where thoughts are batted back and forth, and players need to be ready to respond. Introverts get winded pretty quickly. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

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In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#fiction #supernatural #urban-fantasy #vampire #life

You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life. ↗

— Rob Sheffield

#song-lyrics #life

This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not. ↗

— Patti Smith

#poetry #life

A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

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Now may every living thing, young or old, weak or strong, living near or far, known or unknown, living or departed or yet unborn, may every living thing be full of bliss. ↗

— Anonymous

#bliss #humans #joy #life #living

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals ↗

— Abraham Verghese

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We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#been #cruelest #forms #government #hoax

Never let the state of waiting be in your mind. Just do something else and do it by intention. ↗

— Toba Beta

#do-something-else #life #recipe #state-of-waiting #life