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"seen angels fall from blinding heights"
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"the superior man"
The superior man undergoes three changes:
Looked at from a distance, he appears stern.
When approached, he is mild.
When he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.
- Confucius
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"warriorship is a dignified calling"
Warriorship is a dignified calling. Its professional elite, whether they are military officers, law enforcers, or members of some other warrior vocation, move with a somber grace, an air of power. They aren't arrogant, but they all live with the dark knowledge that their profession may one day call on them to kill other human beings, and they are ( Read more... ) -
"to recover what has been lost"
The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experiences available or permitted to the members of his society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir ( Read more... ) -
"a warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind"
A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's ( Read more... ) -
"wisdom is a woman"
Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent - that is what Wisdom wants us to be.
Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"who walks behind you"
Who is the third who walks behind you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
- But who is that on the other side of you?
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
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"see what we believe"
Faith is to believe in what we can't see; the reward for this faith is to see what we believe.
- Unknown
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If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future, look into your present action.
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"i am only one"
I am only one, but I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. And because I can not do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do I should do. And what I should do, by the Grace of God, I will do.
- Edward Everett Hale