“Education is the empowerment of the mind to continuously seek the true and the beautiful, regardless of ideological distractions.”
Source: Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
“The compleat gentleman’s rectitude does not prohibit him from having a sense of humor. His Stoic sense of life and his urbane education ought to give him wit.”
Source: Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
“I do not feel superior to nineteenth-century gentlemen or twelfth-century knights”
Source: Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
“If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it sometimes becomes much more problematic because they’re erratic. People do crazy things that don’t make sense.”
Source: Brighton Belle
“Relaxation produces smooth strokes and results from accepting your strokes as they are, even if erratic.”
Source: The Inner Game of Tennis: The classic guide to the mental side of peak performance
“The medical profession could not diagnose my low blood oxygen levels. It fell onto me to purchase a recording pulse oximeter and detect the erratic blood oxygenation levels.”
Source: Pandemic Supplements
“Today You Soar
"Like the grand eagle, you spread your wings
And put forth the effort to do great things.
Looking skyward you dared to challenge the wind,
Harnessing power to help you ascend.
With an eye on the goal, fixed in flight,
You climbed to an impressive height.
Undaunted by gusts and unkind gails,
You never gave up and would not fail.
So now you’ve reached where few even try
As the eagle high in a glorious sky.
Not superior, but grand.
Not proud, but sure.
Not a cub, wolf, or bear but an eagle pure.
Today you soar.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“What the famous big blue Boy Scout told to a green Kryptonite? What?? YOU rock!”
Source: One Hundred One World Accounts in One Hundred One Word Count
“She huffed at me, “That I knew you were here. It’s a coincidence. I mean, of course you would follow me, right? I ran out of the room in a fit! What are you, a boy scout?”
She laughed, “Am I your next badge? The ‘Save Skye Martin from herself’ badge?” she finished in a disgusted voice, as she came to stand in front of me.
I watched the myriad of expressions roll across her face: worry, confusion, fear - they were all there, as she stood toe-to-toe with me. When I didn’t answer her fast enough, she turned to walk away.
“Hey, Skye,” I called after her. “I’m not a boy scout.”
She turned, but kept on walking; shrugging her shoulders. “Yeah, so?”
I took a deep breath, and then I let her in on one of the many secrets I had.
“I’m not a boy scout, but I am here to save you…I’m a Guardian.”
Source: Never Let You Fall
“Hope is a terribly dangerous thing, for what if that which we so passionately hope for never comes to pass? What if the healing never comes, the relationship is never restored, the dream can’t be revived, and the horror of the inevitable remains horribly inevitable? These things I pondered. And yet, standing in a forest forced silent by the bitter hand of winter I was reminded that spring is never deterred despite how bitter winter’s hand might be. For it is not the ‘hope’ of spring. Rather it is the ‘fact’ of spring. And therefore we must remember that hope is fact despite how bitter the hand of life.”