Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.
I didn't say a lot. I didn't throw anything. That's not my style. I did think about it though.
Hard work breeds self-respect.
I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you,'
. . . Sean Penn claimed to be 'serv[ing] the country' by giving aid and comfort to an enemy about to be attacked by the US. He said it made him feel more patriotic to dissent from the war aims of his nation. It is at least a counterintuitive position. Most people would not instantly grasp how it is more patriotic to always root against America. White supremacists should try claiming that burning crosses is more supportive of civil rights than not burning them.
The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first. Bringing ourselves to wholeness, we become more sensitive to other people. In the change of consciousness that happens within us, we bring about change of consciousness in those around us and in the planet itself.
There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
Vampires,after all,don't sparkle.