Trevor

“So let us bear in mind the remark of Pythagoras, who, upon learning that one of his followers was growing very fleshy from gymnastics and hearty eating, said to him, 'Will you not stop making your imprisonment harder for yourself?' ... Since, then, this exaggerated care of the body is harmful to the body itself, and a hindrance to the soul, it is sheer madness to be a slave to the body, and serve it.”
― Basil the Great, Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature

“But every man is divided against himself who does not make his life conform to his words, but who says with Euripides, 'The mouth indeed hath sworn, but the heart knows no oath.”
― Basil the Great, Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature

“Inside every bent stick there is a bow, and in the wake of every arrow's passing there lies a story.”
― Brian J. Sorrells, Guide to the Longbow

“Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will turn rain like the stones.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree