concept playlist #2: for when thursday feels like the beginning. it feels like emerging.

1. “If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.” – Agnès Varda, The Beaches of Agnès

2. “… Anything worth dying for… is certainly worth living for.” – Joseph Heller, Catch-22

3. “We’re all just walking each other home.” – Ram Dass

4. “Be proud of your place in the cosmos. It is small, and yet, it is.” – Cecil Palmer, Welcome to Night Vale

5. “If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweler’s felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.” – Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

6. “It’s funny how the days slide along and you find yourself still living – living – living! – and wanting so badly to go on living. Because you do love life.” – Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

7. “What’s the use in worrying? It’s inevitable. “Ghibli” is just a random name I got from an airplane… It’s only a name… How pretty.” – Hayao Miyazaki, when asked, “Aren’t you worried about the studio’s future?”

8. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” – Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

9. “I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.” – Pablo Picasso

10. “The most beautiful part of your body is where it’s headed. And remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.” – Ocean Vuong, Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong