ELIZABETH WURTZEL 1967-2020 “PROZAC NATION”
THE Way I am is that I put everything i have into whatever I’m doing or thinking about at the moment. So it’s not right the people say I’m self-absorbed. I think I’m just absorbed.
IF “PROZAC NATION” HAS ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, IT would be to come out and say that clinical depression is a real problem, that it ruins lives, that it ends lives, that it very nearly ended my life; that it afflicts many, many people, many very bright and worthy and thoughtful and caring people, people who could probably save the world or at least do it some real good, people who are too mired in despair to even begin to unleash the life spring of potential that they likely have down deep inside. NEW YORK TIMES obit Jaan. 7, 2020
FOR A WHILE after my first book came out, I went home with a different man every night and did heroin every day — which shows my good sense, because the rest of the time I was completely out of control. the New Yorker January 11, 2013
J.K.ROWLING 1965—“HARRY POTTER”
IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT WE ALL HAVE MAGIC INSIDE US.
IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE TRUE NATURE OF A MAN, WATCH HOW HE TREATS HIS INFERIORS, NOT HIS EQUALS.
WE HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN WHAT IS RIGHT, AND WHAT IS EASY.
WE’VE ALL GOT BOTH LIGHT AND DARK INSIDE US. WHAT MATTERS IS THE PART WE CHOOSE TO ACT ON. THAT’S WHO WE REALLY ARE.
ACHIEVABLE GOALS ARE the first step to self improvement.
SOMETIMES you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.
SECRETLY we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
IMAGINATION IS . . . THE FOUNDATION OF ALL INVENTION AND INNOVATION.
WE ARE ONLY AS STRONG AS WE ARE UNITED, AS WEAK AS WE ARE DIVIDED.
TO HAVE BEEN LOVED SO DEEPLY, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
I believe in hard work and luck and the first often leads to the second.
SUSAN CHEEVER 1943 “e.e.cummings: a life”
YOU MUSN’T BE SO OPEN-MINDED THAT YOUR BRAINS FALL OUT.
THERE IS NO OTHER CLOSENESS IN HUMAN LIFE like the closeness between a mother and her baby — chronologically, physically and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.
WRITERS OFTEN WRITE THEIR BEST WHEN THEY ARE FEELING THEIR WORST.
WOMENS CURRENCY IS THEIR LOOKS. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.
ADDICTION isn’t about substance — you aren’t addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS EXPECTING TOO MUCH.
DOGS ARE GREAT TEACHERS. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment and they force us to stay there with them.
Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.
DEATH IS TERRIFYING because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.
GUILT IS PETTY. I AM ABOVE GUILT.
LOVE IS A GREAT WRECKER OF PEACE OF MIND.
FALLING IN LOVE AS WE KNOW IT IS AN ADDICTIVE EXPERIENCE.
OUR WESTERN CULTURE embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt to lose the rent in Vegas, that’s bad. but if I have many lovers, that’s good.
A FIERCE LITERARY WOMAN with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.
MUNCHI PREMCHAND 1880-1936 “Godaan”, “Idgah” “Kaphan”
TRUST IS THE FIRST STEP TO LOVE.
BEAUTY doesn’t need ornaments. softness can’t bear the weight of ornaments.
TRUST BEGETS TRUST AND UNTRUST BEGETS UNTRUST. IT’S NATURAL.
LIKE TIMIDITY, BRAVERY IS ALSO CONTAGIOUS.
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
PEOPLE ARE SO SELFISH. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.
WHAT PEOPLE THINK IN THEIR HEART GETS OUT, no matter how much they try to hide it.
WEALTH AND COMPASSION ARE OPPOSITES.
HE WHO IS WITHOUT the honor and strength off the soul can be anything but happy.
WE ALL HAVE TO DIE SOME DAY. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.
THE FIRST CONDITION OF MARRIAGE BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN IS THAT BOTH MUST BELONG TO EACH OTHER TOTALLY.
LETS BE OPEN-MINDED!