“G.K. Chesterton used to say, 'If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.”
Source: 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
“If you’re watching too much television and you know it, you might find it useful to ask this one question: 'Which side of the glass do I want to live on?”
Source: 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
“Groucho Marx once said he found television very educational. 'Every time someone turns it on,' he said, 'I go in the other room to read a book.”
Source: 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
“As Emerson asked, 'Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else’s head?”
Source: 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
“If something is worrying you, always do something about it. It doesn’t have to be the big thing that will make it disappear. It can be any small thing. But the positive effect it will have on you will be enormous.”
Source: 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
“The next time you’re worried about something, ask yourself, 'What small thing can I do right now?' Then do it. Remember not to ask, 'What could I possibly do to make this whole thing go away?' That question does not get you into action at all.”
Source: 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
“When we leave this world, we will ask ourselves one question: What’s different? What’s different because I was here? And the answer to that question will be the difference that we made.”
Source: 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
“It is love. I will have to run or hide.
The walls of its prison rise up, as in a twisted dream. The beautiful mask has changed, but as always it is the one. Of what use are my talismans: the literary exercises, the vague erudition, the knowledge of words used by the harsh North to sing its seas and swords, the temperate friendship, the galleries of the Library, the common things, the habits, the young love of my mother, the militant shadow of my dead, the timeless night, the taste of dreams?
Being with you or being without you is the measure of my time.
Now the pitcher breaks about the spring, now the man arises to the sound of birds, now those that watch at the windows have gone dark, but the darkness has brought no peace.
It, I know, is love: the anxiety and the relief at hearing your voice, the expectation and the memory, the horror of living in succession.
It is love with its mythologies, with its tiny useless magics.
There exists a corner that I dare not cross.
Now the armies confine me, the hordes.
(This room is unreal; she has not seen it.)
The name of a woman gives me away.
A woman hurts me in all of my body.”
“When you boil Christianity down to its core, you might not get an answer to every struggle and tragedy, but you do get unfathomable love and a beautiful hope for a greater future.”
Source: More than Questions
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Unutsa sevdiklerim,
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Ben de unutsam,
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