I am alarmed when it happens
that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily,
without getting there is spirit.
-Henry David Thoreau
I usually take a walk after breakfast,
write for three hours,
have lunch and read in the afternoon.
Demons don’t like fresh air -
they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet;
for a person who is as chaotic as me,
who struggles to be in control,
it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines.
If I let myself go, nothing will get done.
-Ingmar Bergman
And whenever I’d complain or was upset about something in my own life,
my mother had the same advice:
“Darling, just change the channel.
You are in control of the clicker.
Don’t replay the bad, scary movie.”
-Arianna Huffington
