I’ve just finished reading Steven Pressfield’s great book The War of Art. Some parts of it – OK, most of it – jacked me up pretty good. Here are some of the quotes that are doing it to me today…
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us.
The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don’t just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.
What counted was that I had, after years of running from it, actually sat down and done my work.
It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life. (Telamon of Arcadia)
Make the tale live for us in all its many bearings….(T.E. Lawrence’s translation of The Odyssey)
