“If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.”— Paul Haggis, F.X. Toole, Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris, Morgan Freeman, imdb.com
“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.”— Francis Drake, amazon.com
“All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees whose stiff arms clash and tremble in the dark, and the dust of lovers long since buried in the earth-all things proceeding from the earth to seasons, all th…”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. [He] was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?”— John Green, amazon.com
“What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing–a very hard thing… But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?”— Robin McKinley, amazon.com
“Whenever you feel a negative emotion be alone in a room and just sit down with it and feel. Don’t judge it, criticize it, intellectualize it, explain it away. Allow yourself to feel the pain. It’s okay.”— Bo Sanchez, amazon.com