“The 2nd secret to success is to be emotionally 'engaged' with your goals, but not emotionally attached. What's the difference? When you are emotionally engaged you create excitement & enthusiasm for the possibility of achieving your goals, but when you are emotionally attached you create fear & pain that you might not.” MightPainSuccessGoalDifferencesSecretAchievePossibilityEnthusiasmExcitementEngagedSecret To SuccessAchieving Your Goals Author:Hal Elrod
“Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.” IfsCan DoSecretWonderPossibilityRecipesYou Can Do ItAssuredRecipe For Success Author:Mel Gibson
“I see the possibility of being 'made new' again and the gift of rebirth is all that lets anyone really live.. ..The great secret.. .. is never to get stuck, imprisoned in common social patterns. They always paralyse the real quality of life - the 'going onward' is all that matters, and the dead moments in one's life through trying to be a unit in any society or social concept are terrifying really.” TryingMadeRealMatterMomentsSocialCommonSecretQualityPossibilityConceptsPatternsStuckUnitsRebirthQuality Of Life Author:Marsden Hartley
“A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.” KnowsRealSelfHateSexLossGriefSecretForeverPossibilityMetaphorVampireAgencyLastingFlexibleLove HateStagnationReal SelfForever LoveSex Change Author:Kelly Link
“The first kiss ideally signals rapture, exchange of hearts, and imminent marriage. Otherwise it is a kiss that lies. All very crude and nonsensical, and yet it is the staple myth of hundreds of comics called 'Sweethearts,' 'Romantic Secrets' and so forth. The state induced by the kiss is actually self-induced, of course, for few lips are so gifted with electric and psychedelic possibilities.” FirstsHeartSelfStatesLyingCoursesSecretPossibilityKissingLipsMythElectricGiftedSignalsPsychedelicCrudeRaptureFirst KissSweetheartStaplesNonsensicalChange Of Heart Book:the female eunuch Source: the female eunuch
“The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.” IfsMenIdeasYoungGirlStrongSimpleSecretMarriagePossibilityAimMereProfessionPursuitReasonableInferiorityLikelihood Author:William Bolitho
“We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything, the most intimate as well as the most familiar, to the one who loves him as well as to himself.... The person one loves is as ungraspable as the universe, as God's infinite space, he is boundless, full of possibilities, full of secrets.” KnowsLoveFeelsWellsPersonsUniverseSpaceLove IsSecretPossibilityTransformationInfiniteFamiliarIntimateTransformedOne LoveBoundlessInfinite Space Book:Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays Source: Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays
“Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is our own creation, and much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatality; it's a possibility for creative life. It's not enough to affirm that we are gay but we must also create a gay life.” WorldEnoughFormDesireSexSidesSecretCreativeCreationPossibilityGayBehaviorDiscoverySexualityOur WorldHomosexualityCreative LifeFatalityForms Of LoveGay Life Author:Michel Foucault
“Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is always the possibility of change. Because it is precisely this secret dream that keeps you enslaved to the system.” WayMayDreamTurnsSecretWorstPossibilityPrisonerPossibility Of Change Author:Slavoj Žižek