Dustin

“The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind.”
― Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire

“In their minds it is the mark of an ill-prepared and amateur army to rely in the moments before battle on what they call pseudoandreia, false courage, meaning the artificially inflated martial frenzy produced by a general's eleventh-hour harangue or some peak of bronze-banging bravado built to by shouting, shield-pounding and the like[...] It made no difference. None was a match for the warriors of Lakedaemon, and all knew it.”
― Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
― Mark Twain

“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand...there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.”
― JRR Tolkien