If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
This machine kills fascists.
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
I have not yet begun to fight!
Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.
Don’t give up! Don’t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!
I would rather be a rebel than a slave.
I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down...
Art is a war – between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.
The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
Don’t prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.
Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.