"Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll."

-- Philip Sidney

#War Quotes #Law Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.”
“It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.”
“The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose.”
“Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.”
“There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with things having nothing to do with seeking enlightenment. You see, that is the only way to achieve enlightenment; by not focusing on achieving it. Then, one day it will just come to you.”
“The shaman is a self-realized person. She discovers the ways of Spirit through her inner awakening.”
“Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,The source of motion.”

Source : "La Semaine; ou, Création du monde". Poem by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, 1578.
“The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die,”

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