It sucks getting divorce papers. It's like a publicly filed declaration that you're an unlovable piece of shit. And no matter how awful your relationship has been, it's always a surprise when you get 'em.
- from Will book by Will Smith
It sucks getting divorce papers. It's like a publicly filed declaration that you're an unlovable piece of shit. And no matter how awful your relationship has been, it's always a surprise when you get 'em.
- from Will book by Will Smith
Words can affect how people view themselves, how they treat each other, how they navigate the world. Words can build people up, or they can tear them down.
- from Will book by Will Smith
It's in this compulsive desire to constantly please others, to keep them laughing and smiling at all times, to redirect all the attention in the room away from the ugly and uncomfortable, toward the joyful and the beautiful - it's there that a true entertainer is born.
- from Will book by Will Smith
Memory is not a flawless recording of what actually happened. It's not a video of your experience. It's not even a photograph. It is your psychological, artistic rendering. It is more like an abstract impressionist painting of what happened than it is a pure, unfiltered depiction. And it's not fixed - the painting morphs, it fades or expands over time.
- from Will book by Will Smith
It's impossible to build something that is of a higher quality than the quality of the people around you.
- from Will book by Will Smith
Hope sustains life. Hope is the elixir of survival during our darkest times. The ability to envision and imagine a brighter day gives meaning to our suffering and renders it bearable. When we lose hope, we lose our central source of strength and resilience.
- from Will book by Will Smith
There are very few things more incensing than one of your ex–sin partners pointing out your current sins.
- from Will book by Will Smith
The thing about money, sex, and success is that when you don't have them, you can justify your misery - shit, if I had money, sex, and success, I'd feel great! However misguided that may be, it psychologically permeates as hope. But once you are rich, famous, successful - and you're still insecure and unhappy - the terrifying thought begins to lurk: Maybe the problem is me.
- from Will book by Will Smith