“Health is the reward of good living.”
“Many championship sports do not involve wisdom. Exercise is for health and overdoing it is ruinous.”
“A kind and benevolent athlete is beloved by the people.”
“Exercise recreates our lost strength and power.”
“Exercise is a tool for well-being, not a poison cup for nothingness.”
“Order is what lowly and incapable people have always run away from.”
“Order is the most important characteristic of the great universe. Great people have been the most orderly human beings.”
“The dead govern the living.”
“Oliver, success is usually a feeling of mere relief, where failure is pain. Happiness, you see, lies in neither, but in sticking to a daily ritual and becoming absorbed in something useful. When the war is over, even the greatest warriors do not exult. They go back to their garden or kitchen or library -- or school -- and resume life. (as said by Mrs. Pearson)”
“It s best to locate the mind first before launching the missiles of contention .”
“You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.”
“I said that one of the most infectious things i know is laughter. But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn t communicable as laughter or sadness, and good thing too. Fear is almost entirely a lonely thing.”
“The job of an advertisement is to sell a donkey at the price of an elephant.”
“Then stories map the soul, Rawiya said, in the guise of words. -p133-”
“Time rises and falls like an ever-breathing lung But the generations of men, some kind and some cruel, go on and on beneath the stars -p348-”
“Three souls, though the knots in the same string, thought in different directions and slept in varied orientations like the angles of a triangle.”
“Like a filmy soap bubble, her smile reached me leisurely and got busted on my face to liberate all the pressure it wombed through its way.”