Dan Marks

“When you vicariously live through the heroes on your screens and get your taste of victory from a favorite sports team, your ambition is being robbed.”
― John Lovell, The Warrior Poet Way: A Guide to Living Free and Dying Well

“When you treat your wife the way you treat the guys, you lose her. Contrary to the current messaging of our backward culture, a woman is different from a man. She needs you to be the warrior on the battlefield of life and a poet in the home. Learning to strike this balance is difficult but, again, worth it.”
― John Lovell, The Warrior Poet Way: A Guide to Living Free and Dying Well

“Consider that your boss will always want a little more tomorrow based on what you can deliver today. That’s just the nature of work. But you can easily dig yourself an early grave if you don’t know your limits. Be careful here; many men give too much to work and deprive the rest of their lives as a result.”
― John Lovell, The Warrior Poet Way: A Guide to Living Free and Dying Well

“My purpose is to love and serve Jesus Christ with every ounce of my being. From this source comes a love for people, a motive for protecting them, as well as a deep and fulfilling worldview, not to mention the ground rules for all relationships. The warrior needs more than war to live a happy life. So I ask: What are you living for? What will you fight for? Are you ever concerned that even as you fight, you could lose the reason you do it all? What then? We need a purpose, and that purpose must be bigger than ourselves or the love of our lives. The warrior is helped by a muse in their journey toward purpose, because she can serve as a means of drawing out who he really is as well as urging him to climb higher.”
― John Lovell, The Warrior Poet Way: A Guide to Living Free and Dying Well