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“Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.”
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“The mind tricks the body, Body thinks the mind is crazy.”
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“The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.”
Source : David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1959). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”
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“Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.”
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“Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth.”
Source : "A history of Christian missions during the Middle Ages". Book by George Frederick Maclear, p. 365, 1863.
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“I threw up again that night, half-afraid that my eyeballs would explode. But it was, by far, more important that I get rid of dinner. Of course, by then, throwing up was the only way I knew how to deal with fear. That paradox would begin to run my life: to know that what you are doing is hurting you, maybe killing you, and to be afraid of that fact--but to cling to the idea that this will save you, it will, in the end, make things okay.”
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“Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.”
Source : George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.15, Ravenio Books
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“When I'm all alone and I'm by myself, little Peter keeps me company.”
