Jack Allred

“Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face—at least to my taste—his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“The brain is far smarter and more sophisticated than our conscious self. Our job is to set up the conditions for it to be able to do what it does best,”
― Joanne Elphinston, The Power and the Grace: A Professional's Guide to Ease and Efficiency in Functional Movement

“The cycle of life runs in actuality from disability to temporary ability back to disability, and that only if you are among the most fortunate.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

“But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do -- remember that -- and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade. And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.”
― Herman Melville