Quotes of Joan Didion

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Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which selfrespect springs.

- Joan Didion

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“ Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow. ”

- Unknown

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ Hmm…now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don’t pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. ”

- e.e. cummings

“ Be brave. Don't just live in your cave till your grave. ”

- RVM

“ Remember when your heart is empty, don’t fill it with lies and deception. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Love is blind, they say–but isn’t it more that love makes us see too much? Isn’t it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher Eve Green

“ Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Dream so big you get uncomfortable telling smallminded people. ”

- Praharsh Prasoon

“ Don't worry when people only bring up your past. It's only because your present and future looks brighter and better than theirs ”

- Kimberking

“ Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. ”

- Cynthia Hand

“ Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ”

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

“ That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Sometimes you never realize how much you like someone, until you watch them liking someone else. ”

- Unknown

“ Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right. ”

- Becca Fitzpatrick

“ Confidence is how we perceive the manifestation of truth in us. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ Most people never truly live because they never do what they truly love. ”

- Tanner Walling