#ow

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much. ↗

— Joan Collins

#i #made #me #mistake #much

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#charming #depths #heads #how #lose

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#bud #calculated #flower #guarantee #her

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bitterest #closet #courage #dare #enemy

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think. ↗

— Penelope Fitzgerald

#exactly #external #external world #however #in other words

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#idea #keen #life #outside #own

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries. ↗

— Judy Collins

#been #centuries #come #criminals #demons

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#back #drop #head #him #i

Boxing is just show business with blood. ↗

— Bruno Frank

#boxing #business #just #show #show business

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help. ↗

— Judy Collins

#been #certainly #depression #exercise #found