February 2012
3 posts
christwalk:
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I...
December 2011
14 posts
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via elvislives)
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– Maya Angelou (via verdad)
Lists of Note: Take What You Need →
youmightfindyourself:
Baseball player Don Carman had grown so tired of mundane post-game interviews by 1990 that he decided to forego them altogether, and instead attached a handwritten list of stock responses to his locker along with a message to reporters: “You saw the game. Take what you need.” The list read as follows:
1. I’m just glad to be here. I just want to help the club any way I...
November 2011
12 posts
“Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.”
– Proverbs 26:11 ESV (via christwalk)
Generation Sell →
youmightfindyourself:
By WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ NY Times: November 12, 2011
EVER since I moved three years ago to Portland, Ore., that hotbed of all things hipster, I’ve been trying to get a handle on today’s youth culture. The style is easy enough to describe — the skinny pants, the retro hats, the wall-to-wall tattoos. But style is superficial. The question is, what’s underneath? What idea of...
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with...”
– Maya Angelou (via thresca)
October 2011
7 posts
invictus - unconquerable. undefeated.
4 tags
September 2011
9 posts
Distant Signals: autumn creed →
distant-signals:
I don’t know what message life is trying to deliver, not too sure what lesson I’m supposed to be learning. But I’m holding on tight, I’m wild eyed and white knuckled, I’m doing my best to push back just as hard and scream out every bit as loud as this messed up world does. That must count for…
3 tags
August 2011
7 posts
4 tags
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“Winning is not a sometime thing, it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a...”
– Vince Lombardi (via thespartanwarrior)
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