Keep Your Bitter Jealousies Under Control
Don’t take pleasure in reminding people of their place, of keeping them down. Because the only “down” is to your level. Don’t be a sewer rat. Leave everyone else to it and focus on you.
Don’t take pleasure in reminding people of their place, of keeping them down. Because the only “down” is to your level. Don’t be a sewer rat. Leave everyone else to it and focus on you.
I can’t save you. I cannot rescue you from yourself.
If you wait even a second longer to fly all that happens is that you get older. The second has passed. They stack up into minutes and days and weeks and lifetimes and before you know it, the cage is all you’ve ever known.
You’ll do your best, day-in and day-out, for sixty or eighty or a hundred years, and then you’ll be gone, and your life will never have mattered at all.
“Take my love, I’ll never ask for too much – just all that you are, and everything that you do.”
The notion of friends who are, in part, enemy, isn’t a new one – everyone from Carrie Bradshaw to The Disney Channel have pondered what it means to keep company that leaves you with a bitter taste in your mouth.
We do not have to live life in the way we have been told.
Happiness is often the quest of peeling back the layers we’ve built up for ourselves. Removing the stuff that is supposed to make us feel more, but actually smothers who we are: clothes, drinking, busy-ness, excuses.
When reaching out to somebody, say who you are, where you’re from, how you know about their work and why it is important to you.
If you’re around 29 years old and your life feels like it’s going up in smoke, it’s probably not your fault. It’s… Saturn’s. As in: the planet.