J.G.G.

“When Pablo Picasso was an old man, he was sitting in a café in Spain, doodling on a used napkin. He was nonchalant about the whole thing, drawing whatever amused him in that moment—kind of the same way teenage boys draw penises on bathroom stalls—except this was Picasso, so his bathroom-stall penises were more like cubist/impressionist awesomeness laced on top of faint coffee stains. Anyway, some woman sitting near him was looking on in awe. After a few moments, Picasso finished his coffee and crumpled up the napkin to throw away as he left. The woman stopped him. “Wait,” she said. “Can I have that napkin you were just drawing on? I’ll pay you for it.” “Sure,” Picasso replied. “Twenty thousand dollars.” The woman’s head jolted back as if he had just flung a brick at her. “What? It took you like two minutes to draw that.” “No, ma’am,” Picasso said. “It took me over sixty years to draw this.” He stuffed the napkin in his pocket and walked out of the café. Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you’ve failed at something.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise.”
― David Small, Stitches: A Memoir

“Y con el tiempo volvemos siempre allí, a ese sitio doloroso, pero a la vez aliviador, para dejar caer alguna lágrima desvergonzada y hablar en voz alta todas aquellas ideas que pasan por nuestra mente pero que nunca ordenamos para decirlas en voz alta, ya que la persona a la que quieres contarle todo no está cerca, y necesitas decírtelo todo a ti mismo, porque esa persona está dentro de ti.”
― Georgi Dianov Georgiev, De Kaspichan a donde quieras

“Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.”
― Simon Sinek