Reel Life Wisdom - Meryl Streep

“The only good thing about morning is it ends at noon.”

“I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts and of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.”

“There are too many ideas and too many people and too many directions to go. The reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.”

“I suppose I do have one unembarrassed passion. I want to know how it feels to care about something passionately.”

“When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children, in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a life of details. You become a mother, a wife and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. And then you're expected to move again only you don't remember what moves you because no one has asked in so long. Not even yourself.”

"And in that moment. everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman yet I was more myself than ever before."

“Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.”

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