"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny."

-- Aristotle

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“My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.”

Source : "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson (November 7, 1943 speech to Gauleiters in Munich), 1997.
“Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.”
“The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves.”
“Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible-controlling that which we cannot-and instead, focus on what is possible-which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible.”

Source : Melody Beattie (2009). “More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations”, p.16, Hazelden Publishing
“Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.577, Macmillan
“Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.”
“Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.”
“The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.”

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