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.
I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
The meaning of life is that it stops.
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.
Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings here, one like the other.” “That is true” said the priest “but that is how the guilty speak
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
Knowledge must seep into your blood, into your self, not just into your head, you must live it.
Love is a drama of contradictions.
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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.
