#si

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#being #else #get #nothing #simply

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#decides #end #hope #means #money

You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#fall #life #love #only #six

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#artist #beauty #conception #direct #expression

But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth. ↗

— Katie Couric

#around #brushing #course #different #different animal

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#character #depression #existence #felt #give

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#facts #optimism #pessimism #prospects #time

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#basic #effects #energy #felt #just

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#capable #compassion #former #great #his

The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#death-and-dying #insight #inspiration #death