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courage regret mistake
When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that. Carlos Castaneda
courage warrior perfect
If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile...To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.
courage struggle warrior
To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.
courage warrior hands
Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.
courage warrior years
There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.
courage warrior decision
A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.
courage humble eye
The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
courage editors finally friend novelist reply talking
When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.' Stacy Schiff
courage failure humility
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. Charlie Chaplin
heart anorexia situation
Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation. Carre Otis
heart golf swings
The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart. Carol Mann
heart love-is nurse
A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is. Carol Shields
heart my-heart universe
Universe, vast universe, my heart is vaster. Carlos Drummond de Andrade
heart gestures path
Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.
heart men laughing
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
heart men sober
My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.
heart answers path
Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.
heart unhappy path
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
sacrifice america liberty
Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces. Charlie Dent
sacrifice humanity heroism
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. Charles de Gaulle
sacrifice law punishment
In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a "living sacrifice to sin. Charles Caleb Colton
sacrifice self denial
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
sacrifice sake our-relationship
You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person. Charles Stanley
sacrifice winning guarantees-that
There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be. Brent Weeks
sacrifice rights atheism
Once you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again. Dianne Feinstein
sacrifice too-much plot
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. David Shields
sacrifice men giving
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities. Cesare Pavese