“Sweat the small stuff. Without letting anyone see you sweat.”
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
“Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“I guess you could call it a "failure", but I prefer the term "learning experience".”
― The Martian
― The Martian
“When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life’s preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to prove unworthy of them, then his heart truly has achieved contempt for death, and with that he transcends himself and his actions touch the sublime.”
― Gates of Fire
― Gates of Fire
“Here is what you do, friends. Forget country. Forget king. Forget wife and children and freedom. Forget every concept, however noble, that you imagine you fight for here today. Act for this alone: for the man who stands at your shoulder. He is everything, and everything is contained within him. That is all I know. That is all I can tell you.
--Dienekes at Thermopylae”
― Gates of Fire
--Dienekes at Thermopylae”
― Gates of Fire
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