"Training is principally an act of faith."

--

Franz Stampfl

#Training Quotes

“My definition of confidence is how you feel about yourself, and not letting the external world define you.”
“Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.”
“For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have the satisfaction of getting my own way.”
“I just like testing myself. I just have that thing in me. Whatever it is that people tell me I can't do, I've gotta try it.”

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“What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.”
“Think of what would happen to us... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.”

Source : Thomas Lansing Masson (1922). “Our American Humorists”
“A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program.”
“If above all things we would taste God, and feel eternal life in ourselves, we must go forth into God with our feeling, above reason; and there we must abide, onefold, empty of ourselves, and free from images, lifted up by love into the simple bareness of our intelligence.”

Source : John of Ruysbroeck, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage”, p.132, Aeterna Press

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