“On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to rest and, resting, died.”
An unidentified poet, cited in Lewis K. Uhler Setting Limits: Constitutional Control of Government
“the religious worldview conforms to the most successful plot device ever conceived – namely, a happy ending that blossoms from difficulties necessarily confronted and overcome.”
Huston Smith Why Religion Matters
“[T]o be praised by fools, that is the real dishonour.”
A “Buddhist saying” according to a letter from Judy Girard of Ottawa in Ottawa Citizen July 27, 2004
“men who are called practical; and the much more practical pertinacity of the man who is called theoretical.”
G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: “The Dumb Ox”
“The most basic form of human stupidity is forgetting what we are trying to accomplish.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7517225-the-most-basic-form-of-human-stupidity-is-forgetting-what) {BTW I have found this in various forms including “common” rather than “basic” - it’s apparently from Human, All Too Human but I couldn’t track down the German original]
"J'ai décidé de vivre"
Title of a book by Philippe Croizon, who swam the English channel after losing both arms and both legs in an electrical accident, and who has also skydived, quoted on MSNBC September 19, 2010
"If the only way around distress is to stop loving, well, then, let us be men about it and settle for distress.”
Robert Capon The Supper of the Lamb (the reference is not just or even primarily to romantic love but to fondness for all good things such as food, whiskey etc.)
“The river of human nonsense flows on forever.”
G.K. Chesterton, “A Sermon on Inns,” in The Flying Inn, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #1 (September 2003)