Taking Quotes (page 159)

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• end
• world
• warning

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning. C. S. Lewis

• inspirational
• life
• your life

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life. John C. Maxwell

• world
• struggle
• forever

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever. Kim Stanley Robinson

• arrogant
• giving
• may

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. Sun Tzu

• old
• moving
• manners

For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in which—by means of a sort of snapshot—we take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it. Marcel Proust

• dream
• responsibility

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. Les Brown

• freedom
• choose
• responding

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. Viktor E. Frankl

• life
• god
• grace

Like the air, God's Grace is available to us. It is permeating every fibre of Being and the Being of the entire universe. When we take our attention to that Being, finer than the finest, then we establish ourselves on the level of God's Grace. Immediately we just enjoy. Life is Bliss! Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

• storm
• makes
• root

Storms make oaks take deeper root. George Herbert

• time
• understanding
• serious

It's time we started taking our audiences more seriously, and stop telling them stories they can understand. Howard Barker

• art
• discipline
• artful

Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline. Charles Bukowski

• eyes
• consider
• question

You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon... Epictetus

• words
• him
• bear

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die. George R. R. Martin

• enter
• windows
• ways

Hunger is a way. Of standing outside windows. The entering takes away. Emily Dickinson

• places
• downhill
• one way

But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill. Robert A. Heinlein