Joan Didion

“Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.”

Joan Didion (b. December 5, 1934 – d. December 23, 2021)

Do what you feel in your heart…

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (b. October 11, 1884 – d. November 7, 1962)

“Be yourself, it’s a tough act to follow.”

Katharine Hepburn (b. May 12, 1907 – d. June 29, 2003)

Maria Khoreva (b. July 3, 2000) has been first soloist of the Mariinsky Ballet since 2018.

“Do a loony-goony dance, ‘cross the kitchen floor, put something silly in the world that ain’t been there before.”

—Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic (b. Sept. 25, 1930 – d. May 10, 1999)

“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”

– Jeanette Walls

“Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.

Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,

even if your whole world seems upset.”

-Saint Francis de Sales (b. August 21, 1567 – d. December 28, 1622)