Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It…
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.
You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.
Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren’t any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.
الحداد ليس في ما نرتديه بل في ما نراه . إنّه يكمن في نظرتنا للأشياء . بإمكان عيون قلبنا أن تكون في حداد… ولا أحد يدري بذلك
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
If you have the words, there’s always a chance that you’ll find the way.
When will you learn that there isn’t a word for everything?
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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