Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
Energy flows where attention goes.
To get what you really want in life, you need a clear goal that has purpose and meaning behind it.
Once this is in place, you can focus your energy on the goal and become obsessive about it.
When you learn how to focus your energy, amazing things happen.
MermaidDiagram Comment.
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
We all give up great expectations along the way.
Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.
Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.
Few things are more deceptive than memories.
Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever.
Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by.
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.
Don't be bashful; we're among gentlemen. It's a known fact that we men are the missing link between the pirate and the pig.
- No sé qué me ha pasado. No te ofendas, pero a veces una se siente más libre de hablarle a un extraño que a la gente que conoce. ¿Por qué será?Me encogí de hombros.-Probablemente porque un extraño nos ve como somos, no como quiere creer que somos.
There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.
If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened.
The dead never go to their own funeral.
Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost.
Why should we reduce faith to an act of rejection and blind obedience? Is it not possible to believe in values of acceptance, of harmony?
Knowledge Strategy Execution
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
