Stoop to Rise ن

“Can we become other than what we are?” — Marquis de Sade

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. — Samuel Lover “Let us turn passing events to our own advantage. Out of conditions as they exist, let us carve out fortunes and realize our ambitions.” — Arthur Desmond

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. (Psalm 144:4) You are just a vapour that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. (James 4:14)

“It's much easier to BS at the macro-level than it is to BS at the micro-level.” — Nassim Taleb

“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.” — Alexander Pope

“He who is most alive, intrinsically, is King.” — D.H. Lawrence

“Every heresy is a truth taught out of proportion.” — G.K. Chesterton “Every heresy is the monstrous exaggeration of one aspect of the truth.” — Mircea Eliade

“Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society—things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.” — E.B. White Life’s totally open. Anything can change. — J. Bowden

“…even if all the happiness they promised could come to man on earth, yet still each generation would lose it by death, including the last generation of all, and the whole story would be nothing, not even a story.” — C.S. Lewis

“Our life would be meaningless if it ended with death. What benefit, then, would there be from virtue or good deeds? They would be right who say, ‘Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!’ But man was created for immortality…” — St. John of Shanghai