We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
You can fall, but you can rise also.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best.
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
Don't cry over spilled milk
He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.
The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.
80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.
Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.
I realize I waited too long but please don't move on.
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
When you achieve one dream, dream another. Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next. Dreaming is a lifetime occupation.
Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life.
You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.
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