Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.
I think all mothers are a nightmare - i don't think you can have children and not lose your goddamn mind.
"You look how you look," "Be comfortable. What are you going to do? Be hungry every single day to make other people happy? That's just dumb. "
I’m a big believer in accepting yourself the way you are and not really worrying about it.
In a short amount of time, I've lived so much, had so many experiences and met so many different types of people and even lived in so many countries. If I had been in school, I'd be learning about the world from books.
I was a weirdo. I wasn't picked on or anything. And I wasn't smarter than the other kids; that's not why I didn't fit in. I've always had this weird anxiety. I hated recess. I didn't like field trips. Parties really stressed me out. And I had a very different sense of humour.
I learned that you can't have any expectations with life. You never know what's going to happen.
Powerful people come from all walks of life and leave their mark upon the world in a variety of ways. But one thing is common to them all. They move through the world with pure vitality. It is as though all their switches have been turned on.
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who have become as men and men who have become as women. Writers of books with long titles. Only those knights who have failed to touch the Grail. Industrious women. You, and I, and a boy named Oleg, and a girl with blue hair.
It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.
In that instant when I had seen. . . the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths of the hypercosmical past and the hypercosmical future also, yet coexistent in eternity, lay cosmos beyond cosmos.