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It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.
– Joan Didion

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  1. It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive. – Joan Didion
  2. Survive, survive and survive -“ these are the quintessential laws of Nature. But survive does not always mean being mean. – Abhijit Naskar
  3. We tell ourselves stories in order to live. – Joan Didion
  4. Words are thought descriptors. They project thoughts from anonymity. They transfer thoughts into messages. Messages move the world. – William E Jefferson
  5. Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone. – Joan Didion
  6. The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried. – Joan Didion
  7. [P]eople with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things. – Joan Didion
  8. When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children. – Joan Didion
  9. I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome. – Joan Didion
  10. Someone who lives always with a plane schedule in the drawer lives on a slightly different calendar. – Joan Didion
  11. Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them. – Joan Didion
  12. Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he? – Joan Didion
  13. Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. – Joan Didion
  14. I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world. – Joan Didion
  15. Memories are what you no longer want to remember. – Joan Didion
  16. He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them – Joan Didion
  17. She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped a magazine in her shopping card. – Joan Didion
  18. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose. – Joan Didion
  19. I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come. – Joan Didion
  20. Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel – Joan Didion
  21. The ability to think for one’s self depends upon one’s mastery of the language. – Joan Didion
  22. I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing. – Joan Didion
  23. …the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult. – Joan Didion
  24. Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone. – Joan Didion
  25. No new venture occurs without mistakes. Dare to learn and grow through your mistakes–this is how mastery occurs! – Debra Crown LPCS LCDC
  26. When it comes to recognizing your greatness, start first within your mind. Start now, in this moment. Imagine, imagine, imagine and then believe! – Julieanne OConnor
  27. We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us. – Nathan Filer
  28. But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime. – Tara Brach
  29. Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others. – Orrin Woodward
  30. We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom. – Sharon Salzberg
  31. We don’t survive to live. We live to survive. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  32. You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don’t also make it a need. – Shannon L Alder
  33. Whoever can survive the stress involved in every institutional/documentation process, etc in Nigeria can survive anywhere. – OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
  34. To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss. – Chris Womersley
  35. To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it. – Joan Lowery Nixon
  36. Can you imagine a scenario, given our present circumstances, in which human life will actually survive and be here in a thousand years? – Daniel J Rice
  37. A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to global warming. – Munia Khan
  38. I couldn’t imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldn’t imagine having a child to leave. – VT Davy
  39. Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw
  40. I can’t imagine what my life was before. I can’t imagine ever being without you for very long again. – Anna Godbersen

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