Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear.
So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.
-- Michael Jordan
MermaidDiagram Comment.
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe will waitandwaitin that space.
I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Life's as kind as you let it be.
in this land some of us fuck more than we die but most of us die better than we fuck
I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.
We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.
If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains.
the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
the gods seldomgivebut so quicklytake.
regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.
Dying should come easy:like a freight train youdon't hear whenyour back isturned.
the worst thing," he told me,"is bitterness, people end up sobitter.
Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.
girlsplease give yourbodies and yourlivestothe young menwhodeserve thembesidesthere isno wayI would welcometheintolerabledullsenseless hellyou would bringmeandI wish youluckin bedandoutbut notinminethankyou.
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.
it's good to have things done withwhen they don't workit's also good not to hateor even forgetthe person you've failed with.
some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.
It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
as long as there arehuman beings aboutthere is never going to beany peacefor any individualupon this earth (oranywhere elsethey mightescape to).all you can dois maybe grabten lucky minuteshereor maybe an hourthere.somethingis working toward youright now, andI mean youand nobody butyou.
having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.
and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter
You could sit in there all day drinking coffee and they never asked you to leave no matter how bad you looked. They just asked the bums not to bring their wine and drink it there. Places like that gave you hope when there wasn´t much hope.
Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell.
a life can change in a tenth ofa second.or sometimes it can take70years.
She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.
I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.
I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping,ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love.
I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun
Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.
well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is.
my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw
What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
I see a brightportionunder the overhead lightthat shades intodarknessand then into darkerdarknessand I can't see beyond that.
(the whole world is at thethroat of the world,everybody feels angry,short-changed, cheated,everybody is despondent,disillusioned.)I welcomed shots of peace, tattered shards ofhappiness.
she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone.
Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje.
Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply became disgusted and withdrew. Lydia was different. She reacted. She was the Head Cheerleader at the Game of Violence.
be it peace or happinesslet it enfold you
the gods play nofavorites.
La mayoría de la muerte de la gente es una farsa, no queda en ellos nada que pueda morir
I believe that to be the world's greatest livingwriterthere must be somethingterribly wrong with you.I don't even want to be the world's greatestdead writer.just being dead would be fairenough.
who put this brain inside of me?it criesit demandsit says that there is a chance.it will not say"no.
We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
I write fiction.What's fiction ??Fiction is an improvement on life.
I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
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.
