“I ease into the idea of letting go of control and simply let life take the reins. And when I don't hold it so tightly, it doesn't thrash against me so wildly. It calms to a trot and allows me to take in the scenery, experience love, and learn what is important in this world: people, places, memories—not things or perceptions.”
― Sarah Reijonen, Country Girl: Letting Love & Wanderlust Take the Reins
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“Odd, some might think. Why someone would need to travel so far to find oneself. Surely a look in the mirror would suffice, and wouldn’t that be cheaper too? But the mirror lies, and the eyes that do the looking conspire too.”
― Farish A. Noor
"I'm pretty sure anyone who knows what candy crush is is a loser."--Howard Stern
“Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread – a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met – and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity.”
― Tiziano Terzani, A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
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“[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians
(Apr 26, 2017 09:38 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]“[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. [...] It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it [...]"― Lev Grossman, The Magicians
Benjamin Franklin:
"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture."
(1) A life is potentially content / satisfied as considered in itself. But introduce comparisons to the standards of other bios, and gradually there is want, excess, doubt. It gets disparaged, upgraded, or treated to indifference by the new conditions, colors, and measurements. The once absolute lifestyle becomes mutable / changeable by the relationships to other lives.
(2) Alone on an island, the deeds of a Crusoe go without social assessment; what transpires is survival / failure and personal enjoyments / discomforts. But add the crew of the S. S. Minnow to the minimal population and suddenly moral properties emerge. The Crusoe becomes part of a group network that judges his/her state and actions good, evil, inconsistent, savory, bland, repugnant, lazy, middling, industrious, etc.
(Apr 26, 2017 11:05 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ] (Apr 26, 2017 09:38 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]“[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. [...] It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it [...]"― Lev Grossman, The Magicians
Benjamin Franklin: "It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture."
(1) A life is potentially content / satisfied as considered in itself. But introduce comparisons to the standards of other bios, and gradually there is want, excess, doubt. It gets disparaged, upgraded, or treated to indifference by the new conditions, colors, and measurements. The once absolute lifestyle becomes mutable / changeable by the relationships to other lives.
(2) Alone on an island, the deeds of a Crusoe go without social assessment; what transpires is survival / failure and personal enjoyments / discomforts. But add the crew of the S. S. Minnow to the minimal population and suddenly moral properties emerge. The Crusoe becomes part of a group network that judges his/her state and actions good, evil, inconsistent, savory, bland, repugnant, lazy, middling, industrious, etc.
“Comparison is the death of joy.”
― Mark Twain
Quote:But add the crew of the S. S. Minnow to the minimal population and suddenly moral properties emerge.
Not to mention the romantic dilemma of Ginger vs Mary Ann. :}
“There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”
― Steven Wright
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”
― Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
This captures what a social anxient feels like at a party:
“My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it. I compose what I project will be seen as a smile. I turn this way and that, slightly, sort of directing the expression to everyone in the room.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest