hard and clear


I don't know. I'm trying to compile a list of things I find that's really profound about life or just name this post as ASH LISTS QUOTES OF WISDOM.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"'Do you really think he can lead a country?'
'I hope so.'"
— Father, when I asked him about politics


"You are depressed when you live in the past, anxious when you live in the future but calm when you live in the present."— Lao Tze


"The area dividing the brain and the soul Is affected in many ways by experience — Some lose all mind and become soul: insane. Some lose all soul and become mind: intellectual. Some lose both and become: accepted."
— Charles Bukowski


"If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company."
— Jean-Paul Sartre


"People inspire you, or they drain you — pick them wisely."
— Hans F. Hansen


"Write hard and clear about what hurts."
— Ernest Hemingway