"Is [football] for everybody? Of course not. But it is a meaningful contribution beyond, I think, other alternatives."

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Source : Source: bleacherreport.com

Jerry Jones

#Meaningful Quotes #Football Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“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
“We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings.”
“If you do not prepare yourself physically to succeed, you must prepare yourself mentally for the humiliation of failure.”
“People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.”

Source : "U.S. Olympic trials: Q&A with legacy athlete Gail Devers". www.oregonlive.com. June 23, 2012.
“No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]”
“A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.”

Source : Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.162, Bantam
“We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.”
“We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.”

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