"The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving."

-- James C. Collins

#People Quotes #Way Quotes #Achieve Quotes

“If you have the freedom to fly, why not take the scenic route!”
“You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.”
“Never say never - in fashion and life”
“Gratitude is the miracle cure for every moment of dis-ease.”
“The greatness and efficacy of a magician is measured by his refusal to use magic. The true magician, the greatest, is the poorest and most unfortunate of all mortals. Because between his magic and his person forgetfulness takes shape, in the form of the world.”
“I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most effective way possible. But then, indirectly, the alchemy of martial arts began to strike some chords deep within the spirit of many individuals, transforming living war-machines into poets, artists, and philosophers.”

Source : Daniele Bolelli (2010). “On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition: Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology”, p.3, North Atlantic Books
“IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion, Can never die, for Love forbids her death. Love has bent down in his old kindly fashion, And breathed upon her his immortal breath. On wounded soldiers, in their anguish lying, Her gentle spirit shall descend like rain. Where the white flag with the red cross is flying, There shall she dwell, the vanquisher of pain.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1911). “Summer of Love”
“Among the Spartans all newly born children were subject to a careful examination or selection. All those that were weak, sickly, or affected with any bodily infirmity, were killed. Only the perfectly healthy and strong children were allowed to live, and they alone afterwards propagated the race.”

Source : Ernst Haeckel, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, L. Dora Schmitz (1906). “The History of Creation: Or The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes. A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular. From the 8th German Ed. of Ernst Haeckel ... The Translation Rev. by E. Ray Lankester”

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