Military Mental Toughness Quotes & Sayings

Because it's his bad luck to be the best. — Thomas Harris

They didn't dwell; they looked for solutions, made some snacks, and kept moving forward. — Morgan Matson

You can't always wait for fate, you have to step in. — Paige Toon

You have already excommunicated half the village because they will not pay their tithes. So why wouldn't they come to us? Can you excommunicate them twice over? As for the sick, most are here because the Mother Church in her great charity has already damned them and driven them out. The churches are emptier than a pauper's purse and little wonder, for men get more solace from the alewives than from their priests. More stand now outside your church than within it. What difference does it make if you forbid them burial in your churchyard, since they cannot afford the soul-scot you charge them to be buried there? Those who still look to God make their prayers far away from the church, where the air is sweeter and their voices are not smothered beneath your hypocrisy and greed. — Karen Maitland

The idea of grace had been so much on my mind, grace as a sort of ecstatic fire that takes things down to essentials. — Marilynne Robinson

Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that world of overstimulation. Sometimes I think it's like a drug; more is more, and you can never get enough. The older I get, the more I crave that excessive aesthetic. It's never going to satisfy me. — Sufjan Stevens

Compassion is where peace and justice kiss — Meister Eckhart