Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
~ Malcolm X
Elsewhere, this is 4a192. — slipbox
Nobody can give you freedom →
The power to destroy →
For each person there is a sentence – a series of words – which has the power to destroy them.
~ Philip K. Dick
Elsewhere, this is 4a304. — slipbox
Virtuous. Wise. Bold. →
Insist upon it →
People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you are fortunate enough. But that’s not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Elsewhere, this is 4a145. — slipbox
Ready servant of his mind →
A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; Whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; Who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.
~ John Ruskin
Elsewhere, this is 4a55. — slipbox
Hit it harder →
At the end, when your legs are tired
~ unknown
and your arms are giving out,
GET ANGRY.
Get angry that you are tired.
THEN HIT IT HARDER.
Elsewhere, this is 4a109. — slipbox
Two questions →
What is a man? →
Victorious effort →
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Elsewhere, this is 4a11. — slipbox
No inconvenience whatever →
I have perused your piece, and find it to be scurrilous and defamatory. To determine whether I should publish it or not, I went home in the evening, purchased a two penny loaf at the baker’s, and with water from the pump made my supper; I then wrapped myself up in my great coat, and laid down on the floor and slept till morning, when, on another loaf and a mug of water, I made my breakfast. From this regimen I feel no inconvenience whatever. Finding I can live in this manner, I have formed a determination never to prostitute my press to the purposes of corruption, and abuse of this kind, for the sake of gaining a more comfortable subsistence.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Elsewhere, this is 4a872. — slipbox