You can do it. You can be completely daunted and scared, and still, if you do the work to learn how to write, and do the work of writing, you can make stories people will read. You can change myths people think they’ve committed to memory. You can rock this place.
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People will tell you things about the world, ways in which they think you might fail. Some of the things they tell you might be right. Failure can be survived. Keep making a list of your best version, and keep ticking items off. Keep learning. Write your world.
You can make yourself into the person you wish you were. It takes work and small steps and brave goals. Set those brave impossible goals. Tell yourself you are on the right path. Don’t die today. Live. Stay alive. Keep pushing yourself into your best case.
All this is to say: it is not to late to show up for your life. You can be an activist and revolutionary and writer all at once. You can have love. You can give the world the most you have in you. You can start now.
Everything in every way has been begun and completed and then forgotten over and over, in this world, — to be begun and completed and forgotten again, and so on to the end of the chapter. No one nation is better than another in this respect, — there is, there can be nothing new.
There are no friends now; the world is a great field of battle, — each man fights the other. There is no peace, — none anywhere! The wind fights with the forests; you can hear them slashing and slaying all night long — when it is night — the long, long night! The sun fights with the sky, the light w…
I believe in nothing, — I came from nothing — I am nothing. I shall be nothing. That being plain, I am all right.
I attach no importance to the mere appurtenances of life — the baggage that accompanies one on that brief journey. Life itself is quite enough for me.
If you do not love life itself, you love the beautiful things of life, do you not?
'You do nothing for your living?' 'Nothing, indeed!' and he shrugged his shoulders with a mingled air of weariness and self-pity, 'Except one thing — I live! 'Is that hard work?' she inquired wonderingly. 'Very!'
We've been indoctrinated to believe that it’s immoral to try to change someone else. We’ve been told that love, real love, is about accepting your partner “for who they are." But we’re constantly changing our romantic partners merely by our presence in their day-to-day lives. They react to us. We re…
First of all, Nature has endowed every species1 of living creature with the instinct of self-preservation, of avoiding what seems likely to cause injury to life or limb, and of procuring and providing everything needful for life—food, shelter, and the like.
There is said to be hope for a sick man, as long as there is life.
My life is like a speeding bullet that just hasn't hit the target yet.
Living life is a choice, making a difference in someone else’s isn’t.
The essential message of life has been copied and recopied for more than 3 billion years. But where did that message come from? Nobody knows. Perhaps it began in a shallow, sunlit pool, just like this….Or life could've started in the searing heat of a volcanic vent on the deep sea floor. Or is it po…
If life has a sanctuary, it's here in the nucleus, which contains our DNA—the ancient scripture of our genetic code. And it's written in a language that all life can read.
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com
Your roots will always be there.
Either choice is so much more freeing than which choice, and it might even be more honest. Your path is just your path.
We're all unhappy. That's the thing about life.