“A moment can change the way you view the world, and the way you view the world will give you more moments.”
“We become extremely vulnerable to the ones that love us, we believe in what they say, we believe in their faith held next to us. It s law of attraction to become who your surrounded by, so instead of focusing of changing another, find some one suitable to your soul.”
“She always had that about her, the sparkle in her eye, she was unshakeable and what made her so admirable was; her ability to shine bright when no one knew of her pain.”
“I believe that man is here to grow into the fullest, the best that he can be. At least this is what I want to do. As I am growing to become whatever I become, this will just come out on the horn. Whatever that s going to be, it will be. I am not so much interested in trying to say what it s going to be. I don t know. I just know that good can only bring good.”
“She didn t struggle and so she didn t grow”
“focus your intention on what your building, not whats already fallen away.”
“Somewhere along the journey i lost myself; i learnt to be who they told me to be, i lived that girl for decades until their truth showed me; the words they were preaching didnt match the the steps they were walking, so i was done with their opinion and went on my unique way.”
“A person has all sorts of lags built into him, Kesey is saying. One, the most basic, is the sensory lag, the lag between the time your senses receive something and you are able to react. One-thirtieth of a second is the time it takes, if you are the most alert person alive, and most people are a lot slower than that. Now Cassady is right up against that 1/30th of a second barrier. He is going as fast as a human can go, but even he can t overcome it. He is a living example of how close you can come, but it can t be done. You can t go any faster than that. You can t through sheer speed overcome the lag. We are all of us doomed to spend the rest of our lives watching a movie of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we are in the present, but we aren t. The present we know is only a movie of the past, and we will really never be able to control the present through ordinary means. That lag has to be overcome some other way, through some kind of total breakthrough.”
“When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world--the world of fixed traits--success is about proving you re smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other--the world of changing qualities--it s about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.”
“Teenager Me—a teenager? If she suddenly stood, here, now, before me, would I need to treat her as near and dear, although she s strange to me, and distant? Shed a tear, kiss her brow for the simple reason that we share a birthdate? So many dissimilarities between us that only the bones are likely still the same, the cranial vault, the eye sockets. Since her eyes seem a little larger, her eyelashes are longer, she s taller, and the whole body is tightly sheathed in smooth, unblemished skin. Relatives and friends still link us, it is true, but in her world nearly all are living, while in mine almost no one survives from that shared circle. We differ so profoundly, talk and think about completely different things. She knows next to nothing— but with a doggedness deserving better causes. I know much more— but not for sure. She shows me poems, written in a clear and careful script I haven t used for years. I read the poems, read them. Well, maybe that one if it were shorter and touched up in a couple of places. The rest do not bode well. The conversation stumbles. On her pathetic watch time is still cheap and unsteady. On mine it s far more precious and precise. Nothing in parting, a fixed smile and no emotion. Only when she vanishes, leaving her scarf in her haste. A scarf of genuine wool, in colored stripes crocheted for her by our mother. I ve still got it.”
“the problem with the world, is, far too many people drain their energy into what is wrong with their life; instead of holding gratitude for what s right in their life.”
“No matter how old I get, I keep running into people who are smarter, nobler, and kinder. I really ought to start listening to them and telling my pride to shut up. I had gods tell me not to go to Asgard. I had witches tell me not to go to Flagstaff. You told me this plan wouldn t work. But I barreled ahead anyway for my own reasons. I still have plenty of growing to do.”
“The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body.”
“Hope floats but effort propels.”
“Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up.”
“It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I d imagined for myself twenty years earlier, and the reality...it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked by the drug had made me oblivious to my inertia. And it was painful to have to define myself again, at an age when most people are happy in their own skins.”
“If you wish to give chance on others abilities and capabilities then give them respected time to grow and express themselves. Share a path for everyone to grow and glow!”