The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
- Topic: Choice, Decision, Pain, Success
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Creativity is often blocked to trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
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The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
Impossible is just an opinion.
But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.
Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.
I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.
The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.
