Life is too short as we all know it to be. So why dare to spend it trying to live up to other people's worldly expectations of you?
I like the old-fashioned, vintage-inspired swimsuits with halters and maybe a little ruching, and the longer cut that's almost short-shorts, like Ava Gardner used to wear a lot, right?
If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory.
That's the fun thing about fashion: it changes. One day, we're into short, the next we're into full length for day, or half short and long.
Life is too short not to show your truest form EVERY day... Live it, Like it, Love it and then push for more ~~
If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft.
I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time.
I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
Jayden: Why? Grace: It's impossible to worry about anything else when there's blood coming out of you.
Mason: Please, you have to let me in your head once in a while or I'm just going to go nuts, Okay?
Jayden: Yep, I know the rules: no belts, no razors, no scissors, no fucking freedom. Grace: No cussing. Jayden: Shit, I forgot about that one.
You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement. There was no planning for a ca...
I asked Geertrui the other day what she thought love is-real love, true love. She said that for her real love is observing another person and being observed by another person with complete attention. If she's right, you only have to look at the pictu...
Beauty don't ask for attention.
Life is more than not dying. Every living creature is born; it grows and dies. The pattern is the same, regardless of the span allotted. You build between the beginning and the end. What you build is yours. Nothing else is.
Our love is perfect. And even though we may not be, our love creates a bridge that spans over our imperfections and joins us where it matters.
In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.
As the owner of the Arison Group, a philanthropic and business enterprise that spans across 40 countries in 5 continents, my ongoing challenge is to bridge the gap between what I envision and its understanding and practical implementation. The Arison...
