Words that have shaped how I think.
The most personal is the most creative.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Sometimes the best things in life are those we didn't plan for.
To like is because, to love is despite.
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
How you treat others is how you treat yourself.
If you consume enough advice, it all cancels out. Find out for yourself what works for you.
I'm hard on myself because I'm always chasing the next target. If I ever stop growing, it means my best days are behind me. The process is rough but I thrive in it.
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
Let the thunder strike, for peace is found within fear.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
Form your own opinions, don't unconsciously give away that privilege.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Don't have expectations, just reality.
When I hate something so, I try my best to understand it all the more.
Love people and use things because the opposite never works.
Courage isn't the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Charisma is when people feel better about themselves around you (without them demeaning you in the process).
Expectation has no place in reality.
Don't call someone lucky, for they must have failed more times than you tried.
To be true to yourself you need a certain amount of freedom to express yourself. Without that you can achieve nothing.
See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your life, and they always seem to come at a time when you're at your weakest and most in need of their help.
80% of outcomes stems from 20% of inputs or causes.
I'll start tomorrow = I'll quit today.
Hesitate to disapprove of anything that's happening because it's only evolution.
Your story may not have such a happy beginning but that does not make you who you are, it is the rest of it — who you choose to be.
In order to love who you are you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.
No matter how you choose to spend it, time stops for nobody.
You could be the master of your fate. You could be the captain of your soul. But you have to realize that life is coming from you and not at you, and that takes time.
The news is a misleading way to understand the world, it's always about events that happened and not about things that didn't happen.
You can kill yourself all at once, or you can do it day by day, slowly and painfully by not being true to yourself.
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. Does this make pessimism wrong? Not really. Optimism, after all, is a self-fulfilling prophecy, too.
We hear what we want to hear.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the ocean in a drop.
Love is a feeling is not true. Love is a choice.
It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day — that's the hard part. But it does get easier.
I am bad, and that is good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's nobody I'd rather be, than me.
You are all the things that are wrong with you. It's not the alcohol or the drugs or any of the shitty things that happened to you in your career or when you were a kid, it's you.
A man who understands the importance of a clear mind will always make the best decisions for his family.
Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.
You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself.
If you want it, but you don't feel like doing it, force it. Because something is forcing you not to do it.
If every time someone ask you a question, and you have to say the right answer, your whole life is a test.
If you aren't paying for the product, you are the product.
To know thyself is the ultimate form of aggression.
Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
Build a system that even a fool can use and only fools will use it.
Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
Friends come and go, enemies accumulate.
Where you stand depends where you sit.
Anything will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
What you inherit is not as valuable as what you earn.
An artist respects that silence is the foundation of creativity.
Use yourself against you for your own good.