"You can have results or excuses, but not both."

— Anonymous / Unknown

Posted 1 month ago

"No matter how talented you are, your talent is going to fail you if you’re not skilled. If you don’t study, if you don’t work really hard and dedicate yourself to being better every single day you’ll never be able to communicate with people - with your artistry - the way that you want. The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is: I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill. You might have more talent than me. You might be smarter than me. But if we get on a treadmill together, there’s two things: you’re getting off first, or I’m gonna die."

— Will Smith

Posted 1 month ago

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice."

— Wayne Dyer

Posted 1 month ago

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Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, “so what.” That’s one of my favorite things to say: “so what.”

“My mother didn’t love me.” So what.
“My husband won’t ball me.” So what.
“I’m a success but I’m still alone.” So what.

I don’t know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

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— Andy Warhol

Posted 1 month ago

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

— Mark Twain

Posted 1 month ago

"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."

— Chuang Tzu

Posted 1 month ago

"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Posted 1 month ago

"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen."

— Jerome K. Jerome

Posted 2 months ago

"What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you."

— Jeanette Winterson

Posted 2 months ago

"He saw people going through their lives in the manner of a child or an animal, and he both loved and disdained this at the same time. He saw them striving – and suffering and getting gray – over things that seemed to him completely unworthy of this price: over money, over small pleasures, over a little respect."

— Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

Posted 2 months ago

"If you want me to believe that there’s an elephant in the living room, you’re going to have to show me the circus caravan it escaped from, the pasture fence it knocked over, and the wall it smashed through to get into the house."

— Unknown / Anonymous

Posted 2 months ago

"If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company."

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Posted 2 months ago

"I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work."

— Leo F. Buscaglia, Bus 9 to Paradise

Posted 2 months ago

"In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood."

— Henry David Thoreau

Posted 2 months ago

"Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal, highways or side streets, kiss her or keep her. We make choices and we live with the consequences. If someone gets hurt along the way, we ask for forgiveness. It’s the best anyone can do."

— Pushing Daisies

Posted 2 months ago