#stance

The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell when you finally do it. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#gratification #resistance #art

sad things are beautiful only from a distance therefore you just want to get away from them from a distance of one hundred and thirty years ....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful ↗

— Tao Lin

#distance #sadness #world #beauty

I know you better then anyone. You’re practically my son, and I think that it’s the fact that you don’t want to see her leave. You are afraid of change.” He paused; he was right. “You are afraid that she will change. ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#distance #fear #love #change

Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change. ↗

— A.C. Crispin

#resistance #change

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#change

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each? ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#cause-and-effect #chain-of-events #chance #change #choice

The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear on me. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#change #circumstances #change

Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters. ↗

— Toba Beta

#creation #death #life #secret #truth

Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance? ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#art

Als ich sehe, wie Harus Haar verspielt im Wind tanzt und völlig zerzaust wird, und das, obwohl das Grau da draußen doch bleischwer in der Luft lastet, erkenne ich auf einmal, wie weit, weit weg die Vergangenheit ist. Weiter als der Tod, ja weiter sogar als die unüberbrückbare Distanz, die zwischen zwei Menschen besteht. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#deutsch #distance #german #japan #japanese