PandemicSoul Quotelog

Adversity is the first path to truth.

- Don Juan

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

You can’t change the music of your soul.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it’s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you’re not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you’re the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. They will tell you no, a thousand times no, until all the no’s become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly.
And you will tell them yes.

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.