Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
The couples that are meant to be, are the ones who go through everything that is meant to tear them apart, and come out stronger.
MermaidDiagram Comment.
If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
We have to go. I'm almost happy here.
It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.
I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.
Faith doesn't mean that you never doubt. It only means that you never act upon your doubts.
I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.
This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?""I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?""Yes," she said."That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.
There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.
It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.
The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.
Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
You're a monster.Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.
With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.
I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.
[No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.
When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko
I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet.
How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.
Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true.
A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.
But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom.
You frighten me, when you say there isn't time.""I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia.""But it keeps not ending.""So far, so good.
You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor," the Bishop reminded him. With a smile.The Speaker's smile was just as chilly. "And you're the one who told the people I was Satan and they shouldn't talk to me.
And the voice of God was in the whirlwind after all, said Thor
You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.
Only fools think that truth disappears when the boundaries of belief are crossed.
It was wrong of me to value my own pain so highly that I thought it gave me the right to inflict more on him.
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.
