Quotes: Strong men aren't born, they're made.
Liberty Quotes - Eternal Vigilance
"PROGRESS STOPS UPON SATISFACTION"
It's really easy to be average. There's a certain comfort in being mediocre. And the sad truth is that sometimes, the people closest to us like for us to be average; it makes them feel better about themselves.
three keys to happiness?
1) Something to do
2) Someone to love
3) Something to look forward to
"Good things come to those who wait, but only the things left over by those who hustle." Abraham Lincoln
Those who restrain from desire do so only because there desire is weak in the first place - William Blake
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B. F. Skinner
"The whole sense of the courtly idea was the pain of love...The idea was to feel...This is the experience of the pain of being alive. Where your pain is, that's where your life is. So find it." So here, paradoxically, we follow our pain, which of course is inextricably enmeshed with love, referred to as "the boiling point of life." - Joseph Campbell Transformations of Myth Through Time p.213
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more? -- Dr. Seuss
"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile" ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 17
if you want to avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." Will Durant
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
"Beware the man of one book."
"We find comfort among those who agree with us; growth among those who don't."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without
accepting it."
'Luck has nothing to do with it. How many people do you know who "lucked" into a muscular physique or a big deadlift? How many fat people have lucked into getting lean? How many skinny guys have accidentally gained a lot of muscle? In reality, it takes focused determination born of a catalyst: a breaking point that ignites anger — anger that then fuels major changes. Most people usually need a personal "Big Bang" to start the fire and get them going. They've got to get frustrated and furious, then they have to channel that fire into productive behaviors: harder training, cleaner eating, a supportive lifestyle. That's a far cry from being "lucky."-Chris Shugart
"Just as the person who cannot tell you where his money goes is destined to be poor, the person who cannot tell you where his time goes is forever destined to be unproductive. And, often, poor" - Dan Kennedy
Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his. -- George S. Patton
"War is Cruelty, and you can not refine it." --William Tecumseh Sherman
"Who lives longer: the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or the man who lives on roast beef, water, and potatoes till ninety-five? One passes his twenty-four months in eternity. All the years of the beef-eater are lived only in time."
"I'm much too old to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
"Youth is wasted on the Young"
"...The difference between a hooker and a 'ho ain't nothin' but a fee..." "Salt "N" Pepa" song "None of Your Buisness":
"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center" Kurt Vonnegut
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. -- Charles Dickens
'It doesn't matter too much how you eat between Christmas and New Years.; what matters is how you eat between New Years and Christmas!'
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"Chance favors the prepared mind" - Louis Pasteur
There is such a thing as chance in a mathematical sense, but not luck. And even if you think that luck exists, you'd lead a more successful life if you pretended it didn't. Tell yourself, "There is no such thing as luck. It's all on me, every day. Luck is for losers." That scares some people, which is probably why horoscopes, kooky variations of some religions, and the state lotto exist.
My penis is both my best friend and my worst enemy. Without it, I could have been a great man, but only because of it did I want to be a great man.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? -- T. S. Eliot
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved." Helen Keller
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.—Mark Twain
Buddhist saying - "The only enlightenment you find on the mountain top is the enlightenment you take up there with you."
"We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"I know one thing and that is I know nothing"
"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 A. Heinlein
"There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't"
Henry Kaiser, the industrialist, once said that trouble is only opportunity in work clothes
Old analogy of chopping down a tree: You can use a sledgehammer or an exe. Both are hard, but only one is smart.
You can't out-train a poor diet!
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.—Joe Ancis
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.—Abraham Lincoln"
"The beast in me is caged by frail and fragile bars."-Johnny Cash
"Words are useful only if you can believe them. Unfortunately for most, experience itself is the best teacher."
"It is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory". -Bruce Lee
Only the mediocre are always at their best.—Jean Giraudoux
"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." - Michael Apostolius
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and
effect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of
it." - Benjamin Franklin
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton, Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 1887
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is
unfit to govern.
Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881
A visit to Thailand can change your life. Whether those changes are positive or negative depends on what baggage you bring with you and what you're looking for when you arrive. It's a bit corny to talk of self-exploration and "finding oneself" through travel, but in many ways, those things exist for those introspective enough to see what the world has to show them. Stripped of his usual surroundings and removed from all things comfortable and familiar, a traveler is uniquely receptive. He can learn lessons from the cities and the mountains and all those people he meets in between.
Theory: that most "highly successful" people are intrinsically unhappy—or at least discontented. Why? Well think about it. If you're totally, perfectly happy, you have no drive do you? ... Extreme "success" requires a strong dissatisfaction with things as they are. This is neither good or bad, it just "is." So if you're a happy, contented person, you need to find ways to get yourself amped up.
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.—Abraham Lincoln"
Ben Franklin “Today is yesterday’s tomorrow.”
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.—Thomas Edison
"It is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't
concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory".
-Bruce Lee
"Words are useful only if you can believe them. Unfortunately for most, experience itself is the best teacher."
"Nothing tastes as good as lean and sexy feels."
Men compete with each other while women tend to support each other. It's in our base natures.
Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the
end, the faster it goes.
The father of microbiology, Louis Pasteur, carried a magnifier with him when he was invited to dinner. Whenever a particular dish looked suspicious, Pasteur whipped out his magnifier and examined the food for beasties. Historians believe this is the reason he spent so many holidays alone.
'Heroes-in-training shouldn't have to answer questions about their convictions. They just do what they have to do.'
Swoon me, spoon me, harpoon me?
Wyatt Earp(Kurt Russell) From Tombstone: "Get up you mangy cur. You called down the thunder Ike. You tell 'em I'm coming and Hell's coming with me".
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.—Thomas Edison
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
-- The Wizard of Oz
A A Attanasio In Other Worlds pg. 167 Zeke
You've got to stop avoiding pain, and you've got to stop seeking your pleasure
in some faraway future.
You've got to be creative, not just react.
"What's happened to you is now. Its a mandate to be original, despite the pain.
You've got to use your body till it hurts. Use your brain till its exhausted.
Don't seek pleasure for its own sake. That's the game that trips up almost
everybody. Let the pleasure come to you on its own-and when it comes, take it.
And when its gone, keep it a memory, not a hope. Don't look for it. Keep your
focus on what you can give to others from the hurtfully alive center of
yourself."
"This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it may be the end of the beginning."