And Quotes

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.

She has given me a way out.

Say something worthwhile and people will listen.

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality.

Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.

In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.

Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.

And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.

It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.

You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.

You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.

Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.

The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.

Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.

Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.

What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.

If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.

Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow

I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.

Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

Life’s not a one-shot special. It’s a friggin’ on-going series. Live it!

Words matter, words have import.

Live deep instead of fast.

Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.

Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.

Take what the Lightbearer sends and be thankful.

We're all running away. Some of us just don't get very far.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.

Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.

...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?

Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.