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“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion

“My mother always used to say, “The older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.”

-Betty White

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion

“If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.”

-Betty White

“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
― Joan Didion

“Butterflies are like women — we may look pretty and delicate, but baby, we can fly through a hurricane.”

-Betty White

“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”
― Joan Didion

“Laughter keeps everyone feeling wonderful.”

-Betty White

“Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”
― Joan Didion

“If you live without passion, you can go through life without leaving any footprints.”

-Betty White 

“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”
― Joan Didion

“You can’t become a professional mournerReplay the good times. Be grateful for the years you had.”

-Betty White

“Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.”
― Joan Didion

 “Still here, bitches.”

-Betty White

“So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.”

-Sir Sidney Poitier

“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”

-bell hooks

“I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.”

-Sir Sidney Poitier

“Living simply makes loving simple.”

-bell hooks

"Every new fashion is a form of rebellion."
-Sir Sidney Poitier

“Being oppressed means the absence of choices.”

-bell hooks

“In America, it is difficult to be your own man.”

-Sir Sidney Poitier

“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.”

-bell hooks

“I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.”

-Sir Sidney Poitier

“One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.”

-bell hooks

"A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better." 

-Sir Sidney Poitier

“When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.”

-bell hooks

"If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be." 

-Sir Sidney Poitier

“There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.”

-bell hooks

“The road to hell is strewn with roses.”
-Mexican proverb

“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
― Frida Kahlo

“The envious never give praise, they only take it in.”
-Mexican proverb

“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
― Frida Kahlo

“Everyone makes firewood of a fallen tree.”
-Mexican proverb

“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly?”
― Frida Kahlo

“Though a cage may be made of gold, it is still a cage.”
-Mexican proverb

“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
― Frida Kahlo

“A person born to be a flower pot will not go beyond the porch.”
-Mexican proverb

“Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
― Frida Kahlo

“One string is good enough to a good musician.”
-Mexican proverb

“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”
― Frida Kahlo

“He who is accustomed to evil is offended by good.”
-Mexican proverb

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
― Frida Kahlo