Novalis Quotes

Put your choices in perspective.

I'm not going to lie: it's tough. There were a couple of games where you're down, and you're in a really dark place, and you don't know if you're ever going to come out of it. You realize, 'Hey, I'm having a bad day,' but you realize there are people out there having worse days.

I like to go to the movies and watch characters who make me question how I see the world.

The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.

You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.

Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it; and if you can hit it, you can move it; and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

Failure-it centers me. Too much success has me thinking, All right, what's goin' on?

it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's so wide it swallows you whole while your sittin round thinkin 'bout what you can't change and worrying about all the wrong things times flying by moving so fast you better use it all cause you can't get it back sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand and what you've been out there searching for forever is in your hands ooooo when you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.

I think we are all overcoming tiny obstacles every second of every day even if that means just a small shift in perspective.

The trouble, dollIs not moving mountains, butDigging the ground that you're on

You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.

I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.

Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains when it's so simple to climb over them?

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.

Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.