Imagination

It is our imagination that is responsible for love. Not the other person

Marcel Proust
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Above water

You've got to keep your head above water all the time.....
-lm-
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Chaos and assholes

The people who create chaos or are being rude and disrespectful and behave like assholes to you are always beneath you.

Remember that.

They are always beneath you.

They don't deserve your time or energy. The best way to deal with them is to ignore them. They just don't exist.

Why go to the circus when you don't believe in clowns



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Boss

I always want my boss to know my side of the story first....

-lm-

Loki Muthu
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Stand up

Don't be punched in front of your boss in a crowd....

-lm-

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Experience

I prefer a total theatrical experience to an analytical experience."

— Ming Cho Lee, theater designer, born 1930 (Read the obituary.)

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MFK - Intertwined

The easiest answer is to say that, like most humans, I am hungry. But there is more than that. It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it."

MFK on her Grandma

Yes, it was very good for us, because we had better manners when Grandmother was around. She demanded them, and she got them. We had one set of manners for Grandmother, one set when she was gone. We always ate well at the table, always ate nicely. We had good manners. Grandmother believed that children should be seen and not heard, you know, except she heard me all the time, reading. She taught me to read. I liked her very much, but I never-I wondered why I didn't love her.

MFK on Growing Old

Yes. Well, I do believe that. I've always liked older people, I've always been interested in them. I think one of the main troubles about modern life is that the older people do not live with the younger people anymore. In the old days -in the "old days," I say now -but when I was a child, it was considered-you had a big house, bigger than teeny, because if the grandparents came, they took upstairs, and then the middle and the older children and the young people lived downstairs. Or vice versa now, but now with the houses, if Grandmother could come, she goes to an old people's home, but by choice, she thinks or somebody chooses for her. And her room is made into a game room or a TV room or something. [unintelligible], maybe. But I don't think that three generations living together is a common rule now.

Santha Rama Rau

"She was such an unusual person," said her stepdaughter Ms. Teal, "that there was almost no occasion on which she didn't attract attention, just by being herself."

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Telfar Clemens

"Make clothes that do not exist on (folo) the market — just like you don't exist in the world," he wrote. "Don't have any money. Persist for a decade without a single review from the fashion press. Do everything differently. If stores won't buy your clothes, show in museums. If 'beauty' sponsors don't like your skin and hair — make the uniforms for a fast-food chain. Use the money to help bail out hundreds of kids off Rikers Island. Win the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, use the money to make an 'It' bag, where 'It' has nothing to do with domination. Refuse to be tokenized. Decline invitations. Use 'fashion' to envision a future — that can help destroy the present."

Telfar Clemens

I don't think Telfar is global. I think it's intergalactic

-TC

Relationships

Everybody owns the quality of their relationship with another.

If you value the other person and treat the other person well, then naturally the quality of relationship is a good one.

But if you don't value the person and disrespect the person then naturally the quality degrades....

-lm-
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Pain

Growths painful.
Change is painful..
But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong...

-Yogimattyg
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consequence

You face the consequences of your actions and your decisions.

You face the consequences of your inactions and your indecisions.

They are the same 

You blew it

YOU blew it!!

You can blame only YOU for your actions.

You had a good husband.
You treated him badly.
YOU blew it!!!

He gave you a chance to keep the house.
You decided to fight him instead!
Fight him over.....what is best for the kids? 

You blew it!!

You blew it!!

You blew it!!

And guess what?

You will keep blowing it and blowing it and blowing it until one day you will come to realize that YOU are the only one who is responsible for your actions. yes, YOU! 

YOU are the only one who can be blamed for the consequences of your actions !

They will be no one else to blame but YOU!

And you will be forced to put an end to your disease of blaming others!

And then, there will be no one else but YOU.

You are responsible for your actions and your actions have consequences!!! 

OWN your actions! 

ACCEPT the consequences of your actions!

Unless you come to realize this truth - you will continue to keep blowing it.. and blaming others while you are blowing it.

Love light

The real us is pure love, pure light.

 Don Miguel Ruiz

Be what you want

You have the power to be anything. So be what you want. Not just what others want of you. Is that difficult?

Milind Soman

Milind

Physical fitness is the body's ability to withstand physical stress. Mental fitness is the mind's ability to withstand mental and emotional stress.  At any age, the body's ability can be can developed to withstand a stress of a 100m run or a 42 km marathon.  Similarly the minds ability can be developed to adapt to and make the best of any situation. A trained body can do almost anything that we ask of it.

- Milind Soman

The evenings

The evenings we're always together. 

The days are just us running and holding our pants up

James Brolin on his partnership w Barbra Streisand

Daddy

I think our dads watch over us forever.  When you get older and have a decision to make … just close your eyes and ask him for help. And if you listen very carefully, he will lead you to the right choice. I promise!

Love,

Barbra.

Barbara Streisand's letter to George Floyd's daughter

2020 

Barbara Streisand

I still think I'm like most creative people are — confident at times and insecure at times...

Barbara Streisand

Streisand

In some ways, my entire life has been a quest for beauty.

-Barbara Streisand

Busy

Busy is the new stupid

- Nell montgomery