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.
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
I have found God, but he is insufficient.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything
Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.
It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.
What's a fuck when what I want is love?
Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.
To taste it once is to taste it forever --- life or death. Whichever way the coin flips is right, so long as you hold no stakes.
Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken.
I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.
The hope that we may one day awaken to a condition of life utterly different from that which we experience daily makes men willing victims of every form of tyranny and suppression. Man is stultified by hope and fear.
You see, to me it seems as though the artists, the scientists, the philosophers were grinding lenses. It’s all a grand preparation for something that never comes off. Someday the lens is going to be perfect and then we’re all going to see clearly, see what a staggering, beautiful world it is…
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.
