"smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitude and decided to focus on what I had rather than what i didn't have."

-- Marian Keyes

#Letting Go Quotes #Dream Quotes #Attitude Quotes

“I would be lying, if I said that sometimes it is just a job that you show up for because you're getting paid, and that's important, too. But, if you can be in a state of mind where you enjoy your job, whether it's just a job, or it's actually cathartic for you, or it's something personal. I think it would be much easier to be content with doing a good job.”
“Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it's not obvious that it's wrong.”
“You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.”
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”
“I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.”
“'Recovery' is an idea whose time has come. At its heart is a set of values about a person's right to build a meaningful life for themselves, with or without the continuing presence of mental health symptoms.”
“When you believe you can... you can!”
“Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.”

Source : Paul Virilio, Bertrand Richard (2012). “The Administration of Fear”, p.41, MIT Press

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