Mitch

“Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Academic achievement without application and experience in life is no more than intellectual masturbation.”
― Guy S. Clark, Sharkbait: A Flight Surgeon's Odyssey in Vietnam

“The white moon shines
whitely on my loneliness:
lonely too the night.”
― C. M. Buckaway

“Once again Eros has struck me, like a bronze smith, with a large axe and washed me in a wintry mountain stream.”
― Anacreon