Notable Quotes
Someone once said…
Notable Quotes
"Things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. When you
understand that, you abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real
masterpiece." - Leonard Cohen
Authenticity shines, insecurity shouts... Bricks and mortar. Make good bricks. Have ready mortar. Humbly, the house rises. Build slowly but surely. The first house, you were born into. Good, bad, otherwise. The second house, you build yourself. Probably lopsided. Relax, the present determines the past, you’ll see ;) It gets better as you go along. Once you know it to be so. It takes a while, stay with it. The sand you stand on now, was your parents rock, then. Sand is in bricks and mortar; all’s connected. Find your own site, the rock of you, build there. It becomes the sand for the bricks your kids will be made from, and will make themselves and their world of.
“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work... See more
Tina Roth Eisenberg • quotes – Page 7 – swissmiss
Only you can change the world. If only I can convince every single human on earth simultaneously of this fact. Life goal.
As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you
are fundamentally at war with yourself..
The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you
know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.
— Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score
Own your past. Your life is your lesson. Don’t lie to yourself. In your shadow is your gold.
“We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.”
— Carl Jung
“In the second half we discover that it is no longer sufficient to find meaning in being successful. We need a deeper source of purpose.”
— Richard Rohr
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it,
play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good
for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it
now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the
signal to spend it now. Something more will
... See moreOn creating a Body Of Work as you progress in discovering what you’re thinking of and why you’re thinking of it, then becoming the person who realises that you’re not a fixed entity, but creating yourself anew as you bravely stumble along unbecoming the default mimesis that is hiding your true and ever emergent self.