Lately, I’ve been slacking a little on doing my full self-care routine, (not enough exercise, excuses galore for why I can’t) and I’m definitely feel more overall sluggish in response. As Scarlett says though, “Tomorrow …
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Andy Warhol on making changes
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Phillip Glass knows originality
All of my life I’ve had the problem of not knowing what I wanted to be when I grow up. The problem is I want to be everything. This Phillip Glass Quote showed me it’s …
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Sylvia Plath on rejection
Sylvia Plath, Crown Princess of Clinical Depression, had the absolute best way with words, and was the first voice I read that talked about the deep, deep sadness I have inside. For a long time …
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Shakespeare Quote on patience
After living a life of over-indulgence and being stuck inside myself, once I started to make changes for the better and saw how life could be I wanted there faster! However, if you rush through …
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Lucille Clifton on poetry
Even when I can’t write, I can usually write a poem. Poetry describes emotions better than anything but music, little kernels of truth that give you release when read. photo taken at SXSW- Austin, Texas
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Michael Scofield on taking a leap of faith
I’m a non-fiction junkie when it comes to any television I watch, but I make an exception for the Best Worst Soap Opera on TV, Prison Break. So much pathos, people coming back from the …
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Bill Moyers on creativity
Former White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers was a University of Texas at Austin student who wrote for the The Daily Texan there and went on to write fantastic books and host great programming, including the …
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John Kennedy Toole on when life gets you down
A Confederacy for Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is the kind of classic that every outcast or weirdo has read and identified with; Ignatius, the lead character, sells hot dogs in the French Quarter and is disgusted …
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Charles Bukowski Quote about life
In high school I read the poetry of Charles Bukowski in Love is a Dog From Hell over and over, absorbing how modern it all was, and how he spoke a very frank truth in direct prose. …
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Billie Joe Armstrong quote on being a loser
In honor of me seeing Green Day tomorrow, I thought I’d share this quote from singer/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong about being a loser. People worry too much about winning, how about just happily surviving and helping …