"My code of life and my personal bushido is honour, respect, loyalty, courage and surrender."

-- Rickson Gracie

#Loyalty Quotes #Art Quotes #Surrender Quotes

“I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.”

Source : Ron Kovic (2016). “Born on the Fourth of July: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Akashic Books
“It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.”
“Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.”
“Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.”
“If you're stuck in a situation that's painful or there's something that makes you angry, it can enable you to step back from your own experience of it and realize that this is just a part of what it is to be human. It can allow you to accept it a little bit more and make you feel like it's less unfair.”
“We lost a young man's life and it begins to represent so many things.”
“The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.”
“I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.”

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