Charlotte Blessing

“A Chinese proverb reminds us:

You cannot prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.”
― Anne Bryan Smollin, Live, Laugh, and Be Blessed: Finding Humor and Holiness in Everyday Moments

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
― Steve Jobs