I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah.
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.
There are very few distinctions between el bueno and el malo en la prisión militar. Instead of the good and the bad, there is the boring and la repetición - the repetitive. The routine is as endless as it is numbing.
The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life.
Kariakin-Shirov saw another theoretical battle in the 6. . . Bc5 Spanish, which has been one of the opening tabiyas of the event. [. . . ] The most remarkable feature of the game, and a testament to the depth of Kariakin's preparation, is that when the draw was agreed at move 39, his clock showed 1. 52 remaining, some twelve minutes more than he started the game with!
I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.