Recent content by Paul Whybrow

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being. Leo Tolstoy

Anxiety is thought without control. Flow is control without thought. James Clear

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. Charles Spurgeon

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. Charles Spurgeon

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best take it out and teach it to dance. George Bernard Shaw

If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory. Alan Alda

We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful. Michael Strahan

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear. Leonard Cohen

Two things motivate me: death and deadlines. The easiest and most enjoyable way to keep death ever-present in the mind is to read the obituaries every morning. When I read about people who did something with their lives, it makes me want to do something with mine. Austin Kleon

Our heads are round so that our thoughts can change direction. Francis Picabia

I put instant coffee in a microwave and almost went back in time. Steven Wright

Sometimes when we lack motivation or procrastinate, there’s a reason. Often, it’s because there is some fear or reluctance to do something; maybe we think we won’t be able to manage or cope with it. Ask yourself exactly what you’re worried about. You can sometimes then see the fears are not real...

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. Fran Lebowitz