Life Quotes Quote by Joan Didion, On Self-Respect — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“To care about your outward appearance is important, but what’s more important is to have a beautiful soul.”

““My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments—we hear a word that sticks in our mind—or maybe we have a small experience that pulls us out of ourselves, if only briefly—we share a hotel elevator with a bride in her veils, say, or a stranger gives us a piece of bread to feed to the mallard ducks in the lagoon; a small child starts a conversation with us in a Dairy Queen—or we have an episode like the one I had with the M&M cars back at the Husky station.”

“When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.”

““Sometimes people are beautiful.”

““Full many a gem of purest ray serene,”