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Many instructors say Hell Week is 90 percent mental, and they’re right. You need to show that you have the mental toughness to continue on with a mission even when you’re exhausted. That’s really what the idea is behind the test.
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
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“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: “Good.”
― Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
― Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
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“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
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