"Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway."

-- Brandon Sanderson

#Integrity Quotes #Eye Quotes #Men Quotes

“Just making sure the boys are okay is my priority in life, and that takes up all of my time right now.”
“I already accepted that I relate to nothing. The more I gain, the more lonely it is I know I'm like a ghost.”
“My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.”
“We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?”
“He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.”
“It's important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life,”

Source : Ben Affleck speech at People's Choice Awards, www.eonline.com. January, 2015.
“[I]t is easy to regard the mind and the body as two slaves trained to obey the imperial soul.... [I]n this trinity of soul, mind, and body, it is sometimes hard to tell which of the three is at work; and the personality of each of the three parties interferes a good deal with that of each of the others. But if you who read will remember that you are an infinite child of God, and can partake of his nature, and that you have given to you the management and direction of your mind and your body, you will be saved many failures.”
“He was obviously a very arrogant ragamuffin, and younger than she was, to boot. And he was wearing a necromancer's bells! Apart from that, he was quite handsome, which was another black mark as far as she was concerned.”

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