Behind one door we have the inert hopelessness of depression and behind the other, anxiety—the panic, the squeeze, the whole physical power of it greeting you with the sunrise and following you into the shower and to your desk at work and on the train ride home. And then, sometimes, a third door…
"Am working fine now—But I would rather had a good life than be a bloody great writer—(who says he’s a b.g.w. Nobody) Have written PLENTY and will write PLENTY more. And I will be as good as I know and I’ll know better all the time. But every day is a day and it’s MY lousy life—not posterities. Oh well."
— Ernest Hemingway in a letter to Sara Murphy
Writing from Key West, April 1934 (via caryrandolph)
Everything we do that’s important is the result of conflict. Not a conflict between us and the world—a conflict between us and ourselves.
We want to eat another dessert but we want to be healthy and skinny as well. Who is we? Who is the self in self control, and who is being controlled?
We want…
In theory this sounds great…
This would take me forever to get through this even once.
via: nutritionista:workitoutt:
MOTIVATION: daily habits.
Coffee. Shower. Check email. Call your family.
We do a lot of things at least once a day. Why not add sweat? For 20 minutes of 2 hours - whatever is right for you. For today.
GET YOUR SWEAT ON. Not tomorrow. Start today.
via yogarunloverepeat:
sweat once a day
life is glorious, but life is also wretched. it is both. appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives us a bigger perspective, energizes us. we feel connected. but if that’s all that’s happening, we get arrogant and start to look down on others, and there is a…
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Just Like Heaven / Katie Melua
Getting off to a late start. Still half awake and in a dream state as I wait for the caffeine to kick in.
#mondaze
- Angry
"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it."
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Razors Edge (via kissmeimlazy)
