“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
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“(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“slope, but still I felt nervous. As I gathered up my maps and turned to go, I hesitated and asked the ranger, “Am I going to make it?” He”
― The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
― The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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