#inertia

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. ↗

— Dorthea Brande

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#act #break #command #face #fail

Sadness is the ambrosia of all art. ↗

— Frances Fong

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#disgust #inertia #isolation #poetry #sadness

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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#change #inertia #influence #willpower #change