Champions are built on a thousand invisible mornings.
I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now. ' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.
We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.
You have to be real with yourself. No one is doing that. People are too concerned with making everything look nice and calm and pretty.
If it makes you nervous- you're doing it right.
You're always allowed to be better.
Took the G out yo waffle, all you got left is your ego.
His face spreads into a warm smile. “As a matter of fact, no, I have never slept under the stars – are you gettin’ all romantic on me, Camryn Bennett?” He looks at me with a playful sideward stare.
people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine.
I feel like winning a world championship was a hurdle I had to get over.
Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is not mysticism, but Gnosticism. Biblical mysticism is the attempt to exit 'this world' to an alternative reality that pervades the old order. Its goal is to jettison the mind-set that says 'greed is good,' selfishness is normal,' and 'killing is necessary. ' Mysticism in biblical terms is not escapism, as so many have caricatured it, but a fight for ethics and social change.