“Their incredible determination creates the need for nonlinear thinking, combined with boundless energy. Champions also earn money in nonlinear ways. While the masses essentially trade their time for money, the great ones realize this is probably the worst way to acquire wealth. Using”
― 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class
― 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class
“WE MUST, all of us, be prepared for the most terrible. Is not death, in the midst of humiliation, a way to give oneself even more?
Sacrifice admits of neither calculation nor reserve. If I had lied like the rest where would I have landed?
Yet, I believe even so, more than ever, only the idealists can change the world.
The soul that remains is the soul.”
―
Sacrifice admits of neither calculation nor reserve. If I had lied like the rest where would I have landed?
Yet, I believe even so, more than ever, only the idealists can change the world.
The soul that remains is the soul.”
―
“You make the mistake of considering Christianity as something that developed over the course of a few years, from the death of Jesus to the time the gospels were written. But Christianity wasn't new. Only the name was new. Christianity was merely a stage in the meeting, cross-fertilization, metamorphosis of Western logic and Eastern mysticism. Look how the religion itself changed over the centuries, reinterpreting itself to meet changing times. Christianity is just a new name for a conglomeration of old myths and philosophies. All the gospels do is retell the sun myth and garble some of the ideas from the Greeks and Romans.”
― Behold the Man: A Time Traveler’s Quest to Become the Messiah—The Nebula-Winning New Wave Science Fiction Classic
― Behold the Man: A Time Traveler’s Quest to Become the Messiah—The Nebula-Winning New Wave Science Fiction Classic
“Or should one recognize that one becomes a foreigner in another country because one is already a foreigner from within?”
― Strangers to Ourselves
― Strangers to Ourselves
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