"Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit."

--

Chuck Palahniuk

#Spirit Quotes #Destroying Quotes

“I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate.”
“His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.”
“If you want to be right-sized in body, you've got to get rid of the supersize way of life.”

Source : Bob Harper, Greg Critser (2012). “The Skinny Rules: The Simple, Nonnegotiable Principles for Getting to Thin”, p.13, Ballantine Books
“...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.”
“When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the dubious exhilaration of grand philosophical theory, in which messy reality is tamed and caged, but the thrill of seeing pretension punctured by a kind of high-voltage common sense (backed up by impressive erudition). . . . There is no one in philosophy quite like him.”
“The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.”
“When you talk with your mother you are one person; when you go to the bank or you're with your girlfriend you are another person, and that's the way I act. Then for me, it's important that I trust a director and as soon as I do, as soon as I feel comfortable with him, then I pull something out of myself that I didn't even know I had inside of me. That's what I like about this job.”

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