Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Mantras, again

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.
– Rumi
The intelligent want self-control, children want candy.
– Rumi
Free yourself from the tyranny of constant thought.
What you do defines you.
It's okay to live a life others don't understand.
Be a force for good.
Be anti-fragile.
Be comfortable being uncomfortable.
Discomfort is growth.
Keep making shots.
Keep moving. – Rambo
Just do it.
Push yourself.
Press on.
Be calm, be strong.
Train your will.
Life is an attitude. Have a good one.
You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.
Pay no attention to the critics. Don’t even ignore them. – Samuel Goldwyn
The painting isn't done in the middle.
Pioneers take the most arrows.
There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. – Ryan Adams
My song is love. – Coldplay
Love is all around you. – Tesla
God's lookin’ out for us. – Marcus Luttrell
If it disappoints you, think of it less.
Brother, stand the pain, escape the poison of your impulses. – Rumi
Self-respect comes from hard work.
Do work, Son.
Finish it.
One more.
We gonna do this, or we just gonna talk about it?
There is no try. – Yoda
Satisfaction lies in effort.
How may I serve?
Sprinkle kindness, scatter joy.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
– Dylan Thomas
This mustn't register on an emotional level.
– Sherlock Holmes
My cup runs over. – Psalm 23
The only easy day was yesterday.
– Navy SEALs
If it doesn't suck, we don't do it.
– Navy SEALs
There is no tomorrow. – Apollo Creed
Confrontation's never been something we've had trouble with. – Rick TWD
We won't get weak, that's not in us anymore.
– Rick TWD
Your bad habits are in the hallway doing push-ups.
Relax Luther, it’s much worse than you think.
– Ethan Hunt
Every warrior hopes a good death will find him.
– One Stab
But Tristan refused to speak of her. – One Stab
The wind cannot defeat a tree with strong roots. – The Revenant
You're okay. Keep fighting. – Ronda Rousey
Comparisons are odious – Jack Kerouac
Traveling hopefully is better than arriving.
Love more, worry less.
I can do this all day. – Captain America
Oh hell Max, I been in tighter places than that.
– Grandpa Swede (after his Model T rolled and Max thought he'd been crushed and killed)
We carry our own. – Grandma Bev at Grandpa Swede's funeral
There is power in optimism.
There is power in ritual.
Make practice a practice.
Rust never rests.
Terror is a fine instructor.
Bet on him, if you like. – Herger the Joyous
Grow stronger. – Herger the Joyous
(I am not a warrior!) Very soon, you will be.
– Herger the Joyous
I’ve been through worse. – Wolverine
Life makes goats of us all. And heroes.
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner
Does iron wrought, in furnaces hot, in withering heat, complain?
Which is the greater pleasure?
I am not an atheist. – Albert Einstein
Enjoy every minute of it, Hon.
I honor the power within me.
I only harbor healthy thoughts.
Within us is the power of self-repair.
But the dreamers of day are dangerous men.
Thank you for M 'n' m.
Thank you for ....
Great multitudes came to him, and he healed them all.

"Deep within man dwell slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action."
      ― Orison Swett Marden

"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-control."
     ― 2 Timothy 1:7

"Iron is full of impurities that weaken it, but, through forging, it becomes steel. It is the same with human beings."
     ― Morihei Ueshiba

"In the midst of winter I found within me an invincible summer."
      ― Albert Camus

"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness, and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, but they become legend."
     ― One Stab, Legends of the Fall

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