"Do your best, and be a little better than you are." ― Gordon B. Hinckley
"Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone." ― Shannon L. Alder
"I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end." ― Abraham Lincoln
"If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place." ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
"I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life." ― Madeleine Albright, Madam Secretary: A Memoir
"If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may." ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
"The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.
If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don't come from comfort zones." ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
"Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace" ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
"A kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness. Here all is distance, there it was breath. After the first home the second one seems draughty and strangely sexed." ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
"I beheld and still behold in anger and agony the eagerness of the world to throw piles of shit on those of us who want to savage or simply cannot help but savage the norms that so desperately need savaging." ― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
"In this world, you only get what you grab for." ― Giovanni Boccaccio
"I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society." ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
"Your most important "want" should be the one you can control!" ― Shannon L. Alder
"If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don't come from comfort zones." ― Roy Bennett
"People are successful because they think and act like successful people." ― Roy Bennett
"But at the same time, Dreiser points in An American Tragedy to the significance of those very social connections in the creation of Clyde's criminal motivation. In asking how Clyde Griffiths the murderer was formed, Dreiser takes a panoramic view of economic development and social change in the United States during the decades leading up to the 1920s. In particular, he views Clyde as the product of a certain kind of family during a certain historical period. Though the story of Clyde draws on accounts of an actual 1906 murder, Dreiser deliberately avoids exactly dating the story, and the book thus comments not on a specific moment, but on an American era.
The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (p. 198). Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition." ― Leonard Cassuto, The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser
"Look in your bill box, do you see someone else's name? When you do; then you can worry about what that person thinks." ― Ron Baratono
"Games let us flirt with such seductive agencies in a protected context. Here is the hope: if you spend a lot of time engaged in aesthetic striving play, you will have plenty of practice losing yourself in, and then drawing back from, the pleasures of value clarity. You will be used to wearing your submersion a little lightly. Then when life hands you far more pressing agential modes, and value clarities with more seriousness and force behind them - when you face the calls of the crisp and clear value systems inherent in money, grades, Twitter likes, and research impact factors - you will have developed the right habits of lightness and control with your agency." ― C Thi Nguyen, Games: Agency as Art
"You don't get to leap from being a 17 year old naughthead who doesn't know anything and who isn't disciplined to the critic of Judeo-Christian society. Especially when you can look at your own life and think about how many things you are doing you know are wrong and you could fix that you aren't fixing." ― Jordan B. Peterson
"If we didn't catch enough fish, or fish of high enough quality, too bad. That's life. No one has the right to win. Victory has to be fought for. It needs a Fight Club, not a Flight Club." ― Brother Abaris, The Illuminist Army
"The Faustian knows that no one is coming to save him. He must save himself. He will try anything, go anywhere, in his quest for the Holy Grail. He commits himself unreservedly to the greatest cause of all – to discover the innermost secrets of creation. And only one person possesses those secrets: God. And that is Faust's sacred and infinitely inspiring quest – to become God himself. He is the Nietzschean Superman. He has no limits, he bows to no false prophets, he needs no ancient books full of rules and commandments and silly parables and stories." ― Michael Faust, The Right-Brain God
"You shape yourself, you make yourself. There is no one to save you other than yourself. It's not Christ, Mohammed or Moses who's responsible for your life, it's you. In the end, souls judge themselves." ― Michael Faust, The Right-Brain God
"Even if I do attain some goal, at that very moment the only thing that's important to me is to go beyond that which is no longer a goal but now only a stage." ― Kathy Acker, My Mother: Demonology
"A good Pile of Trash wins a favorite interest of a dustpan." ― Syntraits
"There is no such thing as perfection, only improvement." ― Marsha Hinds
"The ability of an object to constitute itself as a subject is thus defined, in the first instance, by the objective context provided by the genus; that is, the capacity or incapacity of an object to constitute itself as an individual subject depends first and foremost on the kind of thing the object is. For mechanical, chemical, and externally purposive objects, the power of the genus is determined essentially as violence insofar as these objects cannot constitute themselves as subjects through a predicate due to their very nature as defined by their genus. For example, a rock, qua rock, can be determined through a predicate externally - by means of external impact from other objects and forces (it can be crushed or cracked into pieces) or by means of human definition and conceptualization (this rock is igneous and that one is sedimentary) - but is cannot determine itself through a predicate and constitute itself as a subject by means of its own activity. The power of the objet to constitute itself as a subject is necessarily defined in relation to its essential Gattung-predicate, a predicate that manifests the power of violence insofar as the object is unable to constitute itself as a subject by means of this very same predicate. The third characteristic, finally, is that power as violence directs itself against individuality. In specifying that it is only in the presence of the freedom of self-consciousness that the power of the genus can be determined as fate, Hegel writes the following: 'Only self-consciousness has fate in the strict sense, because it is free, and therefore in the individuality of its 'I' it absolutely exists in and for itself and can oppose itself to its objective universality and alienate itself from it'. Individuality is thus defined as an existence in and for itself that can stand opposed to and be in contradiction with its objective universality or genus, while continuing to manifest the genus's power as identical with its own self-relation. Without the ability to oppose its genus, the ability to be self-alienated with respect to its genus, the object is not, strictly speaking, an individual (it remains a mere particular, a token of its type entirely interchangeable with other tokens of the same type). Individuality is therefore not only the power of the object to constitute itself as a subject through its predicate, but moreover, this power of self-constitution is essentially also the power to oppose, contradict, and transform the genus by means of the genus's own power as manifest in the determinateness of an individual." ― Karen Ng, Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic
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