Captivatingly simple yet applicable. #pursuitofhappiness
What are your thoughts?
The truth is, life is rarely exactly the way we want it to be, and other people often don’t act as we would like them to. Moment to moment, there are aspects of life that we like and others that we don’t. There are always going to be people who disagree with you, people who do things differently, and things that don’t work out. If you fight against the principle of life, you’ll spend most of your life fighting battles.
by Richard Carlson
I’ve been fighting too many battles lately, time to subside and choose my matches more carefully. Life is too short, let’s just live.
I do not pretend to be a divine man, but I do believe in divine guidance, divine power, and divine prophecy. I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field—but I am sincere and my sincerity is my credentials.
Malcolm X, quoted in Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution
The essence of charisma is an overpowering emotion that communicates itself in your gestures, in your tone of voice, in subtle signs that are the more powerful for being unspoken. Malcolm X felt something more deeply than others, and no emotion is more powerful, particularly if it comes from deep rooted feelings of oppression.
In conclusion, my theory is: express what others are afraid to express and they will see great power in you. Say what they want to say but cannot.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
~ Hannah Arendt
Promises are made to be broken! okay, just kidding. Honestly, if you can keep your promises in life as the general sense, success will follow you.
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
~ Og Mandino
I think the value of the human spirit is to humble ourselves at the moment we find within the greater purpose.
Women are not at their ease except with those who take chances with them, and enter into their spirit.
by Ninon de l’Enclos
Sometimes it’s about “going for it”, grabbing what you want. I had a conversation with some friends lately regarding the matter; a lot of interesting opinions came up. I think to go for it is an innate personal characteristic that not everyone can just “do”. One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t just utter.
The quote above is rather more complicated to explain; I merely braised on the middle part. As for “their ease” and how to “enter”, well, that’s something we can discuss another time.
[Narcissistic] women have the greatest fascination for men … The charm of a child lies to a great extent in his narcissism, his self-sufficiency and inaccessibility, just as does the charm of certain animals which seem not to concern themselves about us, such as cats … It is as if we envied them their power of retaining a blissful state of mind—an unassailable libido-position which we ourselves have since abandoned.
by Sigmund Freud
Humans, like nature, hate a vacuum, and emotional distance and silence make them strain to fill up the empty space with words and heat of their own.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
I say — though it might be ‘simple’, what an artist say can always be interpreted in many different ways. Have you ever met an intellectual artist? ;)
Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.
