{"id":4496,"date":"2017-10-19T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stripedpineapple.com\/?p=4496"},"modified":"2017-10-19T10:10:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T14:10:04","slug":"quotes-for-every-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stripedpineapple.com\/?p=4496","title":{"rendered":"Quotes for Every Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"

For when you can’t describe how good your book is:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u201cBecause when I read, I don\u2019t really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.\u201d \u2013 Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude<\/em><\/p>\n

For when you’re insecure about your writing:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0“Remember, when you write, shoot for the moon, so even if you miss you’ll continue into the cold, unending nothingness of space between the stars, utterly, utterly alone in a featureless black void for the rest of eternity, which is what you and your Art deserves” -anon (This one just cracked me up because it feels a little too true as a writer \ud83d\ude00 )<\/span><\/p>\n

For when you need a joke to keep in your pocket:<\/strong><\/em> “What do you get when you cross a joke and a rhetorical question?” -anon<\/span><\/p>\n

For when you just broke up:<\/strong><\/em> “But lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless, and lonely is healing if you make it.” -Tanya Davis<\/span><\/p>\n

For when your dreams are bigger than you can accomplish:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u201cSometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I\u2019m not living.\u201d –<\/span>Jonathan Safran Foer<\/span><\/p>\n

For when you don’t know about contentment:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>“We looked at a human life up close and saw that it was just an ordinary Wednesday, again and again and again\u2014and that achieving life happiness was all about learning to be happy on a routine weekday.” -Tim Urban<\/p>\n

For when you need a tip on being beautiful:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u201c<\/span>The more I shift my attention to people and places around me, whether it\u2019s chatting with a stranger on the subway or listening my little cousin Goldie practice her ukulele with her hamster on her shoulder, the more beautiful I feel.\u201d \u00a0-Stella Blackmon<\/span><\/p>\n

For when you feel tied to your phone:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u201cGET OUT NOW. Not just outside, but beyond the trap of the programmed electronic age so gently closing around so many people\u2026. Go outside, move deliberately, then relax, slow down, look around. Do not jog. Do not run\u2026. Instead pay attention to everything that abuts the rural road, the city street, the suburban boulevard. Walk. Stroll. Saunter. Ride a bike, and coast along a lot. Explore\u2026. Abandon, even momentarily, the sleek modern technology that consumes so much time and money now\u2026. Go outside and walk a bit, long enough to forget programming, long enough to take in and record new surroundings\u2026. Flex the mind, a little at first, then a lot. Savor something special. Enjoy the best-kept secret around\u2014the ordinary, everyday landscape that rewards any explorer, that touches any explorer with magic\u2026all of it is free for the taking, for the taking in. Take it. take it in, take in more every weekend, every day, and quickly it becomes the theater that intrigues, relaxes, fascinates, seduces, and above all expands any mind focused on it. Outside lies utterly ordinary space open to any casual explorer willing to find the extraordinary. Outside lies unprogrammed awareness that at times becomes directed serendipity. Outside lies magic.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u2014<\/span><\/i>John Stilgoe<\/span>, <\/span><\/i>Outside Lies Magic<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Because when I read, I don\u2019t really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[91],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-4496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stripedpineapple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_1160.jpg?fit=3369%2C2116","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8A8kG-1aw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7657,"url":"http:\/\/www.stripedpineapple.com\/?p=7657","url_meta":{"origin":4496,"position":0},"title":"Oxford, Oh Joy","author":"Rachel","date":"February 8, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"When my girls and I planned our little dashing trip to London last fall, I thought with secret longing of how close we would be to Oxford, but I didn't mention it much because our trip was already very short and surely there was no way we could pack a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","block_context":{"text":"Travel","link":"http:\/\/www.stripedpineapple.com\/?cat=94"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stripedpineapple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0902.jpeg?fit=1200%2C642&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stripedpineapple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0902.jpeg?fit=1200%2C642&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stripedpineapple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0902.jpeg?fit=1200%2C642&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stripedpineapple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0902.jpeg?fit=1200%2C642&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stripedpineapple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0902.jpeg?fit=1200%2C642&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1034,"url":"http:\/\/www.stripedpineapple.com\/?p=1034","url_meta":{"origin":4496,"position":1},"title":"Joy and Sorrow","author":"Rachel","date":"August 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The relationship between these two is something I've often thought about, and sometimes hated, even while grudgingly understanding that it must be so. 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