fortitude

We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.

Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can__ hear it.

The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise.

An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it__ the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win.

The key to success__eep swimming. Even when they tap you on the shoulder to say the pool has been drained, just keep swimming.

The most critical time in any battle is not when I__ fatigued, it__ when I no longer care.

Giving up on a purposeful journey of life is as deadly as death! When you pursue with tenacity, and strive through the adversities and the vicissitudes of life with a mind of fortitude and get to the end of the journey, you shall surely see life. Awake! Arise and go! Never ever give up!!!

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

I would be dreadfully remiss not to think that God would painstakingly craft something an intimately ingenious and inexplicably intricate as my life, and that by virtue of such sheer brilliance I should not examine it with the greatest precision and unleash it with the fullest abandon.

Great men do not experience small challenges. They face great challenge but that is what makes them great. That is what give them great story. That is what inspires them to live and leave distinctive footprints on minds. Though they face great challenges, they gather great momentum and strength to fight such challenges with fortitude and tenacity to the satisfaction of their inner man. Great men, though they face great challenges, they always come out of the challenges as great men with great stories. They live and leave distinctive footprints of life on minds

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

Suffering is so real & I walk amongst so many who have no idea how much my soul is aching to be healed.

. . . the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it is tactile, mental or spiritual

Embrace what is, steer toward what may yet be.

Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach.

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.