Quotes

Opportunity

Published May 11, 2014  ·  All posts on May 11  ·  

You know what lies outside your comfort zone?

Opportunity.

~ unknown

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Traitors in our midst

Published May 5, 2014  ·  All posts on May 5  ·  

We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

~ C.S. Lewis

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Commitment means

Published April 18, 2014  ·  All posts on Apr 18  ·  

Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.

~ unknown

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Harmonious proportions

Published April 11, 2014  ·  All posts on Apr 11  ·  

The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual and physical nature. This should be the end at which men of all classes should aim, and it is this only which constitutes real greatness.

~ Douglas Jerrold

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Protest Against Idleness

Published March 30, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 30  ·  

It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature has everywhere written her protest against idleness; that which remains inactive, rapidly deteriorates. It is the struggle toward an ideal, the constant effort to get higher and further, which develops manhood and character.

~ James Terry White

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Fitness

Published March 24, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 24  ·  

Fitness is not about being better than someone else,
it’s about being better than you used to be.

~ unknown

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Virtus

Published March 18, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 18  ·  

Without an adversary, virtus shrivels. We see how great and how viable virtus is when, by endurance, it shows what it is capable of.

~ Seneca

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Specialization is for insects

Published March 12, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 12  ·  

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

~ Robert Heinlein

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The right state of mind

Published February 28, 2014  ·  All posts on Feb 28  ·  

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can, I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.

~ Mohandas Gandhi

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Prove yourself

Published February 22, 2014  ·  All posts on Feb 22  ·  

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

~ Seneca

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Create something

Published February 16, 2014  ·  All posts on Feb 16  ·  

If you want to really hurt you parents … the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

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Our numbered days

Published January 23, 2014  ·  All posts on Jan 23  ·  

Here is a list of fearful things:
The jaws of sharks, a vulture’s wings,
The rabid bite of the dog’s of war,
The voice of one who went before.
But most of all the mirror’s gaze,
which counts us out our numbered days.

~ Clive Barker

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