Mushing Magazine Quotes & Sayings

Be terrified. Nothing in life is certain. It does not owe you anything, and if it decides to take something from you it will. You must accept this truth. Accept the dreadful possibility that your blind optimism is merely a fancied lie. — H.S. Crow

An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures. — Henry Petroski

If you start having a society where people are policing their own thoughts, now we're back in Salem, Massachusetts, where literally, they didn't do anything for fun, and then that pressure built up and they all went nuts. — Mary Katharine Ham

A Freudian would claim to know what they have and I lack, but intelligence is not situated in the crotch - — Rebecca Solnit

George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day - another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise. — Thomas Hardy

The structure of our identity determines how we show up as a leader, how we deploy ourselves into circumstances. — William A. Adams

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. — Mahatma Gandhi

Here's other quotes and sayings you can motivate yourself with. Practice only makes for improvement. — Les Brown

In other words, after Winthrop has acquired all his butter firkins, food stirrers, and beer along with six dozen candles, twenty thousand biscuits, and twenty-nine sides of beef, he goes through the Bible and writes down a bunch of verses commanding him to be willing to cheerfully give all that stuff away. My firkin is your firkin being one of Christianity's primary creeds. — Sarah Vowell

Do you carry a dagger, Your Highness?"
Raisa nodded. "I do, as a rule, but Micah and Fiona took mine."
"Then take this one." He wiped the blade on his breeches, returned the blade to a sheath at his waist, then unbuckled the belt, handing the whole package to her. Raisa slid the blade free, turning it so it caught the light. It was of the same make and design as the Lady sword, with the image of Hanalea worked into the hilt.
"I can't take this!" She protested. "It belongs to your family."
"I've not much use for it, in fact," Byrne replied. "If I let an enemy get close enough to need it, I deserve what I get. — Cinda Williams Chima

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser. — Wendy Carlos

Things are messed up in the world, that's all. — E. Lockhart