Trevor

“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

“I took pains to relate to him many of my pleasantest adventures, by field and by flood, with the longbow.”
― J. Maurice Thompson, The Witchery of Archery

“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“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