‘Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that fear has no power and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.’
-Jim Morrison
‘Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that fear has no power and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.’
-Jim Morrison
‘All this buttoning and unbuttoning.’
‘After almost six decades of diligent slacking I’m now widely acclaimed as extraordinarily untrustworthy.’
– from blogger Cabrogal at Neurodrooling
‘And always remember that you cannot be extraordinary if you aren’t trustworthy yourself, since others will not want to do business with you or be your friend.’
– W. M Allen from his blog post Trust at Harmony Books & Films, at LLC
‘I was a very insecure male, a guy who wanted to put his woman into a little box, lock her up and then bring her out when he feels like playing with her.’
‘There’s always something you can do with the mad that you feel.’
‘You might as well like yourself, just think of all the time you’re going to have to spend with you.’
I love Nora Ephron. Sadly, she is no longer with us but her spirit lives on and I’m re-reading some of her stuff. I couldn’t decide between these two quotes, so I thought, I’ll do both.
‘Many years ago, when I was in analysis, my therapist used to say, “Love is homesickness.” What she meant was that you tend to fall in love with someone who reminds you of one of your parents. This, of course, is one of those things that analysts always say even though it really isn’t true. Just about anyone on the planet is capable of reminding you of something about one of your parents, even if it’s only a dimple.’
I tend to agree with most of Nora’s musings, but I don’t agree with this one. I side more with the analyst.
And second quote: ‘I now believe that what my mother meant when she said ‘Everything is copy’ is this: When you slip on a banana peel , people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.’
From ‘I Feel Bad About My Neck’ – Nora Ephron
‘You’ve always been crazy. This is just the first chance you’ve ever had to really express yourself.’
-Louise to Thelma, in Thelma and Louise
‘I will always remember my grandma saying, when I was full of maudlin self pity following some self-inflicted personal crisis, ‘It’s like a cloud, it’ll pass.’