do it for yourself

I get up in the morning and I say,
"What am I gonna do that's gonna make me happy today?"
I do that every morning, and I found out that it's the best way to live because you get up and you say
"Well, I'm gonna do this for myself first."


in Girls S06E05

fear

to grow

often we ask ourselves
to make absolute sense
out of what just happens,
and in this way, what we are practicing

is suffering,
which everybody practices,
but strangely few of us
grow graceful in.


Tony Hoagland

you keep talking

In this world, you have to be able to nod and smile and drink a pint, and say, "How was your day?" In this world no one can be different or strange or damaged. Or they lock you up. So what do I do know?

in River (S01E02)

so compelling, so complex

In books and films and plays it's always so compelling, so complex. There should be more than one word for love. I've seen love that kills, and I've seen love that redeems. I've seen love that believes in the guilty, and love that saves the bereaved. What we will do for love - die for it...

in River (S01E01)

lack of awareness

Happiness is pervasive.
It is everywhere… When we are unhappy it is because something is covering our minds and we are not able to be aware of happiness. When the difficulty is past we find happiness again.
It is not that happiness is all around us. That is not it at all. It is not this or that or in this or that.
It is an abstract thing.
Happiness is unattached. Always the same. It does not appear and disappear. It is not sometimes more and sometimes less. It is our awareness of happiness that goes up and down.
Happiness is our real condition.
It is reality.
It is life.

Agnes Martin