After you leap, before
After you leap, before you land, is God. Gabrielle Roth
Leap
As Einstein queried, ‘Why
As Einstein queried, ‘Why is it that I get my best ideas in the morning while I’m shaving?’ Shaving is like meditation with a sharp object. When the mind is empty and receptive, big ideas flow through every cell of our body. When we’re thinking too hard, we tense up and nothing can flow through … Read more
If you want to
If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need … Read more
Diving is a leap
Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity. Gabrielle Zevin
Risk is good. Not
Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap. Evel Knievel
Black Poets should live–not
Black Poets should live–not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do. Etheridge Knight
Freedom is based on
Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. “A leap from this bridge will set me free. Ernst Junger
Anglers have a way
Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be … Read more
I’ve decided life is
I’ve decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it. Erma Bombeck
There was a period
There was a period of time between 2005 and 2008 that was pretty challenging. I had taken a leap of faith and moved to Los Angeles from New York, which had been incredible to me professionally. I couldn’t get arrested in this town. There was a lot of doubt and fear that crept in, and … Read more