quotes about Useful Life

“Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.”

“I wish I knew exactly who I was. I was talking to a friend earlier about the advice people give each other, advice like "just be yourself," and how this is particularly awful because it presumes we know who we are. As if people are static and unchanging.”

“In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.”

“If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.”

“I like David Beckham just because of his lifestyle. He don't ever need to score another goal again. How many times has he been on the cover of GQ?”

“Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.”

“If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody else is going to. So go for it. Find what makes you happy and do it.”

“I'll live in another world, then.”

Source : Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.80, Candlewick Press

“Oh, he was the sun burning bright and brittle And she was the moon shining back his light a little He was a shooting star She was softer and more slowly He could not make things possible But, she could make them holy.”

“A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.”