Category: Quotes

“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” – Wiliam Faulkner

“Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge. If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.” – Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found In Accra

“Just how much time do you spend thinking big? I mean, really, really BIG?

Good, very good!

Because that’s exactly how much of ‘It’ you’re going to get! What a coincidence.”

– The Universe, through Mike Dooley, Notes From The Universe

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain, Author

“He said, ‘You can’t talk about music. Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.’ It’s just as pointless as talking about a lot of things. Love, for instance. Talking about love is like dancing about architecture. So I don’t know. He might be right. But it ain’t gonna stop me from trying.”  – Playing By Heart, 1998

“Whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don’t matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it done.” – Jack Youngblood

Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today, it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I’ve walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it, and above. – Gia Marie Carangi (1960-1986), Gia (1998 film by Angelina Jolie)

 

“I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a sharp, in focus picture of it in my head.” – Jack Nicklaus

“Your future hasn’t been written yet…so go ahead and make it a good one!” – Sue Augustine, 101 Success Secrets for Women

“Happiness for any reason is just another form of misery.” – The Upanishads, Happy For No Reason