Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.
Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.
What you find I think in the mystical strain of Catholicism is that you’re put in relationship with God, and you have many opportunities not only of talking with God in petitionary prayer, but also of listening to God, being attentive to God, as happens in contemplation.
Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.
The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.
I want to be funny, but it has to be a believable funny.
I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.
Your life today is the sum total of your choices. So if you’re not happy with it, look back at your choices and start making different ones. Even if you are struck by lighting and injured, you made choices that led you to that spot at a particular time – and you get to choose how you feel about it afterward.
If you’re too weak to handle failure and disappointment, then you’re too weak to handle success, which will only end up damaging your life and happiness.
There’s a giant gap between what you imagine yourself doing and what you’re capable of doing and it hurts pretty bad when you fall into that gap.
But at times, life is random if not downright stupid.
Kids can say anything in a mocking, singsong voice, and make it sound uncool. “You have ears. Nyah-nyah-na-nyah-nyah, you have eee-ars and they’re on the side of your fay-ace!
Every experience is a potential life lesson. Even if you don’t appreciate it at the time, each struggle in the present is preparing you for something else in the future.
Because no matter how low you go and how lost you feel, there is always tomorrow. And tomorrow just may be the day when you get lifted up and find your way.
It’s spoken with a shoulder shrug, a side-to-side of the head, and roll of the eyes. It means: “I can’t even fathom your reality, but I’ve decided to just accept it and move on.
And you take any consequences on the chin. You shoulder them because you know nothing can make you buckle. What people don’t realize is that discomfort is temporary.
Until you stop wishing things were different, accept the way they are, and take up the sole responsibility of doing something about it, nothing will change.
Napoleon Hill had a beautiful spin on the moments when things don’t work out the way you planned and unexpected hardship falls on you. Instead of coming from a negative place and looking at those moments as a “failure,” he called them “temporary defeats.
These are challenging times. Only the strong survive. And by the strong, I mean people with a strong enough mindset to make it through this particular place that we’re in as a society. Because we’re taking steps backward. We really are going backward.
How you handle rejection is very similar to how you’ll handle success. If you’re strong enough to handle rejection without taking it personally, without holding a grudge, and without losing your passion and drive, then you’ll be strong enough to reap the rewards. But if you’re too weak to handle failure and disappointment, then you’re too weak to handle success, which will only end up damaging your life and happiness.