Walking sideways gives you a wider view.
lk 240
Women in their fifties nowadays seem to shine at their work with a confidence that is quite dazzling.
lk 203
When you’re close to fifty, one hundred years doesn’t seem like an awfully long time. I almost feel I could live to a hundred and sixty if I try.
lk 186
What are you looking for?
… I’m still searching. Searching for somewhere I can be accepted as I am. Just one place is all I need. Somewhere to be at peace.
lk 183
Things change, even if you want them to stay the same. At the same time, you can try to change, but you will still remain the same.
lk 137
I went with the flow and did what was easiest at the time to achieve what I wanted.
lk 136
You may say that it was the book, but it’s how you read a book that is most valuable, rather than any power it might save itself.
lk 136
Life is one revelation after another. Things don’t always go to plan, no matter what your circumstances. But the flip side is all the unexpected, wonderful things that you could never have imagined happening. Ultimately it’s all for the best that many things don’t turn out the way we hoped. Try not to think of upset plans or schedules as personal failure or bad luck. If you can do that, then you can change, in your own self and in your life overall.
lk 131
Why is the parent who gives birth always expected to make the biggest career sacrifice?
lk 125
While I do believe that it was hard work for my mother to give birth to me, it also took me every ounce of my own strength to endure the extremely difficult process of being born. After all that time inside my mother’s belly growing into a human being with nobody to guide me, all of a sudden I was thrust into an entirely new and strange environment. Imagine what an awful shock it must have been to come into contact with air for the first time, not knowing where I was.
lk 114
I believe that a job secures you a place in society. So if you have a parallel career, you can have two places. With neither side business.
lk 81
“What are you looking for?” she had asked me.
I think about it. A place for these dreams that I don’t know what to do with?
lk 60
In a world where you don’t know what will happen next, I just do what I can right now.
lk 32
I was working in order to eat, but I never had time to eat because of work – that seemed crazy.
lk 31