I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
Paulo CoelhoRead
No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up & show up
Interpretation
No matter your mood, it's important to make an effort and participate in life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of perseverance and commitment, regardless of how one may be feeling on a given day. It suggests that taking action, such as getting dressed and showing up, can help shift your mindset, improve your day, and contribute to your overall well-being, inspiring others and yourself to keep moving forward even during tough times.
In practice
In a motivational speech, one might quote this to encourage attendees to push through their struggles.
I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.
We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.
Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.
The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants
Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
I can't remember the last day I didn't train.
If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within. And the man or woman who has a star toward which to press cannot be thrown off the course, no matter how the world may try, no matter how far things seem to be wrong.
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