Meyoung Quotes & Sayings

To put it still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath.

We worry because we feel unsafe, and want to be safe. Yet it is perfectly useless to say that we should not want to be safe. Calling a desire bad names doesn't get rid of it. What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking it is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don't like it. In other words, if we can really understand what we are looking for - that safety is isolation, and what we do to ourselves when we look for it - we shall see that we do not want it at all. No one has to tell you that you should not hold your breath for ten minutes. You know that you can't do it, and that the attempt is most uncomfortable. — Alan W. Watts

Years later when she was being eccentric, had shed her corset and let her arse spread unhindered by anything but her perpetual dressing gown. — Peter Carey

This man was gorgeous. I'm mentioning this because women live their lives secretly waiting for their lives to become movies. We act like men are the ones shallow enough to desire an unending stream of beautiful women but really, if a charismatic narcissist beautiful bad boy man actually desires us, seems to choose us, we go to pieces. We suddenly feel like we are finally in that movie rather than a life. Just what we always wanted. To be chosen by the best looking man in the room. Rhett Butler. Even though we are of course smarter and more mature and more together than to ever want that. Or admit it. — Lidia Yuknavitch

If you want to touch me, Kendall, touch me. Don't hide behind those little girl slaps. — Lisa McMann

Then you haven't lost your soul. Only a creature with a soul can tell the difference between right and wrong. Yes, you've made mistakes, but you feel guilt. You feel remorse. And if you still have your soul, you haven't lost your chance at redemption. — Sylvain Reynard

To be continually underestimated is a woman's lot. — Stephanie Barron

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. — Petrarch

Getting loved by yourself is the best thing that can happen to you. After all your heart is a part of you. Before being someone else's. — Minhal Mehdi

How come you're always so mean?
Howie Katelnikof — Dana Stabenow

Most scripts are written to be green lit. They're not written to be acted. And a lot of writers with the greatest intention in the world don't write for actors. They don't understand the architecture of what an actor needs to get from point A to point B. — Laura Linney

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit ... a reputation, character. — John D. Rockefeller

Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it. — Mary Chase