Joan Didion Quotes about Life

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

Life, Respect, Self Esteem

FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 15, 2011

What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness program or whatever it is that you might use to try to control the world by closing it out. I want to tell you just to live in the mess. Throw yourself out into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm telling you to live in it. Try and get it. Take chances, make your own work, take pride in it. Seize the moment.

Joan Didion

Life, Moving, Believe

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Joan Didion

Life, Dinner, Ends

Joan Didion (2009). “The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play”, p.4, Vintage

Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it, to look at it, to witness it. Try and get it. Seize the moment.

Joan Didion

Life, Believe, Progress

Joan Didion Quotes about Life

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