Quotes

Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.

Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.

In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race.

The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.

Your actions reveal how badly you want something. If you keep saying something is a priority but you never act on it, then you don’t really want it. It’s time to have an honest conversation with yourself. Your actions reveal your true motivations.

You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.

When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.

With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.

When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.

We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.

The ultimate form of intrinsic motivation is when a habit becomes part of your identity. It’s one thing to say I’m the type of person who wants this. It’s something very different to say I’m the type of person who is this.

Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.

Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.