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Stoicism, an ancient philosophy that was once one of the most popular civic disciplines in the West, practiced by the rich and the impoverished, the powerful and the struggling alike in the pursuit of the Good Life.
“But now, by saying what his future was going to be like, he had created it. A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes a along with other realities-never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.”
― The Pearl
― The Pearl
“A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.”
― The Pearl
― The Pearl
“Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.”
― Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders : A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury
― Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders : A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury
“To determine to go and to say it was to be halfway there”
― The Pearl
― The Pearl
“For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.”
― The Pearl
― The Pearl
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