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.
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.
Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
...is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.
I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.
...and when is enough proof enough?
Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.
Why are you leaving me?He wrote, I do not know how to live.I do not know either but I am trying.I do not know how to try.There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.
I said, 'I need to know how he died.'He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.
There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!
Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped.
She died in my arms, saying, "I don't want to die." That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.
She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.
If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.
Grandfather informs me that is not possible.
Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!
...people with nothing to declare carry the most.
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.
There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.
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.
