“A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.”
—Steven Pressfield
—Steven Pressfield
| LIFE Thought for the Day
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“When it looks impossible, look deeper…and fight like you can win.” (from a video game of all places, but a nice quote nonetheless...which is why it's my signature)
I also like this one from Teddy Roosevelt:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strive valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, If he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
I also like this one from Teddy Roosevelt:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strive valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, If he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
"The dose makes the poison."
- Paracelsus
- Paracelsus
"If they looked behind them, there was a mighty ocean which they had passed, and was now as a main bar or gulph to separate them from all the civil parts of the world."
- Nathanial Morton
- Nathanial Morton
Come, ye thankful people come,
Raise the song of harvest home;
All is safely gathered in,
Ere the winter storms begin;
- Henry Alford
Raise the song of harvest home;
All is safely gathered in,
Ere the winter storms begin;
- Henry Alford
TerryP
Staff
In my world, this is something that never should be sung, but read.
I can't read it without singing it in my head.
TerryP
Staff
Same thing happened when I read it this morning. Having been so inundated with hymns growing up they all just "hit wrong" now a day. You know this ...
Having been immersed in hymns growing up, the remembrances of singing among so many who have gone on before me invite the nostalgia to wash over me.
One man's inundation is another's voluntary cannon ball into the deep end...
TerryP
Staff
I’m going to use that one at some point!!!
Let every heart prepare Him room.
- Isaac Watts
A happy Advent Season to all.
- Isaac Watts
A happy Advent Season to all.
TerryP
Staff
Who sang "White Wedding."
Man was meant to do his daily work with his muscles; but see him now, like a fly on flypaper, seated for eight hours, motionless at a desk.
- Jacques Ellul
- Jacques Ellul
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
- Thoreau
- Thoreau
