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.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.
That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
Sometimes dead is better
There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
Time's the thief of memory
Your hair is winter fire,January embers.My heart burns there, too.-Stephen King, IT
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.
This inhuman place makes human monsters.
never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.
I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.
Eighty percent of success is just showing up.
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?
Time heals all wounds.
Time and tide wait for no man.
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.
There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.
You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?
He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, there was no arguing.
I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.
Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.
She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.
He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake.
In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.
Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.
It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.
There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.
Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
It's a hard life if you don't weaken.
their respect for the mystery--the half-grasped but never spoken idea that maybe, when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there is no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. That was the mystery.
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Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.
No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
To write is human, to edit is divine.
And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
Am I weird?""Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.
The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.
But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.
If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.
Words have weight.
A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.
You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show.
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.
Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.
We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.
The monster nevers dies.
Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.
It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep.
Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts.
Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.
Mijn vaders stelling : als jij hen nodig hebt, kom dan vijf minuten te vroeg. Als zij jóu nodig hebben, kom dan vijf minuten te laat.
He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands
she might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then.
There was an abyss. And books contained magical incantations to raise what was hidden there, all the great mysteries.
But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.
I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.
We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.
If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen
I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
She was satisfied with the answer God had given Moses from the burning bush when Moses had seen fit to question. Who are you? Mose asks, and God comes back from that bush just as pert as you like: I Am, Who I AM. In other words, Mose, stop beatin around this here bush and get your old ass in gear.
The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
Why does she have to be such a...such a...""Go on," I said. "The truth is never cussing, Son.""Such a bitch!
Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.
To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.
Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.
Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!
The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go
Oh no, praying is great, without it the thumbscrews and the Iron Maiden probably never would have been invented.
Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.
Time was a face on the water, & like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.' - The Wind Through The Keyhole.
The horror had been articulated; it was out; its face had been drawn and could be regarded. Now, even if it could not be changed, it could at least be wept over.
love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl...
If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone
You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.
In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.
A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.
Love came out of them the way love had come out of the boy and girl walking up the street and holding hands.
I like you," she whispered, and he thought that her scent was like lilies, secret and hidden in cracks furred with green moss—places where sunshine is short and shadows long.
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.
