I gave you the advice in a previous post to use a quote or fact to help you jump start a blot post. All fine and good, but it's not always easy to pull up one when you need it. I decided to start you off with a few of my favorites. I'll add to it as we go, but I want you to feel like you can come here when you need a bit of inspiration. It will include quotes from famous people, passages of books I enjoy, bits of poetry or even scraps of overheard conversation. Pick and choose as you need.
The only real currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with somebody when you're uncool.
This is from the film Almost Famous and spoken to a young wantabe (fictional) reporter William Miller by the real rock critic Lester Bangs, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. One of those lines that feels like real advice
Worrying is praying of things you don't want
Jen Sincero in from You Are A Badass
Folk are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be
By our greatest President, Abraham Lincoln
Hope is a combination of setting goals, having the tenacity and perseverance to pursue them, and believing in our own abilities
Brene Brown in The Gifts of Imperfection
Do not rule over imaginary kingdoms of endlessly proliferating possibilities
Geshe Sawopa
Wealth: The repertoire of physical transformations that one is capable of causing
David Deutsch
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