Sign in with Facebook
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Train your brain on what to focus on, what to interpret as important.
We can’t feel equal courage and confidence in all areas of our life
Fear only becomes an opponent when it becomes our focus.
“…become afraid of earthquakes, tall buildings, desks, and donuts.” It’s as if the brain uses hashtags to group things - all these things might be #earthquake to the brain because of the simultaneity of occurrence.
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“At bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
―
―
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
Virtual Writers
— 2340 members
— last activity Jan 21, 2026 06:29AM
Helping readers and writers connect. Virtual Writers is a popular online writers’ community committed to showcasing established and emerging writers ...more
Pragya’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Pragya’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
582 books
|
120 friends
15,290 books
|
472 friends
579 books
|
149 friends
432 books
|
766 friends
89 books
|
148 friends
1,233 books
|
289 friends
927 books
|
192 friends
661 books
|
57 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Pragya
Lists liked by Pragya
