"As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. Mediocrity is not about failing, and it's the opposite of doing. Mediocrity, in other words, is about not trying. The reason is achingly simple, and I know you've heard it a thousand times before: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

Source : "Ray Bradbury: The Uncensored Biography" by Gene Beley, (p. 284), 2006.

Georges St-Pierre

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“Your body is an absolute mirror of your mind. As you worry, your body shows it. As you love, your body shows it. As you are overwhelmed, your body shows it. As you are angry your body shows it. Every cell of your body is being allowed or resisted by the way you feel. 'My physical state is a direct reflection of how I feel', instead of 'How I feel is a direct reflection of my physical state'.”
“I made very clear at the time that the love of same sex couples is every bit as valuable as that of opposite sex couples but nevertheless my view actually is that marriage in the biblical sense is very clearly from the many many Christians who wrote to me on the subject in their opinion can only be between a man and a woman.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.”
“These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator.”
“Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.”
“The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.”
“I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.”

Source : "Julian T Borlaski’s Gowanus Atropolis" by Nicolle Elizabeth, believermag.com. February 1, 2012.
“Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.”

Source : "Dan Colen’s Intimate Evening of Performance at Smalls Jazz Club". Interview with Kalup Linzy, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2012.

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