Angel Quote by Steven Pressfield

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

— Steven Pressfield

“The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Each asks the same questions: Who am…

— Steven Pressfield

The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming…

— Steven Pressfield

There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is…

— Steven Pressfield

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

— Steven Pressfield

“that of dealing death, of loosing another man’s soul and sending it down to hell. You want to savor it, to twist the blade…

— Steven Pressfield

“Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific…

— Steven Pressfield

When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.

— Steven Pressfield

Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

— Steven Pressfield

The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with…

— Steven Pressfield

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And…

— Steven Pressfield

You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.

— Steven Pressfield