"Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear."
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"Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear."
"No,’ Nico said. ‘Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that’s the trick.’ As soon as he said it, Nico realized he could’ve been talking about himself. He decided not to bring that up."
"It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams."
"Progress just means bad things happen faster."
"Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life."
"The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know."
"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers."
"It doesn’t matter how smart you are or what you know; if you learn to put those two things together, to let your pain drive your talent, you can become the best at anything you do in life."
"Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?"
"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often."
" When we’re together, I feel like the sun just came out on a cloudy day."
"Art is the proper task of life."
"Art is to console those who are broken by life."
"Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art Not many have style Not many can keep style I have seen dogs with more style than men,although not many dogs have style. Cats have it with abundance. When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,that was style. Or sometimes people give you style Joan of Arc had style John the Baptist Jesus Socrates Caesar García Lorca. I have met men in jail with style. I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail. Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done. Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me."
"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
"Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway."
"Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it."
"All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance."
"Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom"
"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."
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