INTEGRITYHONORCOURAGE
My life is simple, my food is plain, and my quarters are uncluttered. In all things, I have sought clarity. I face the troubles and problems of life and death willingly. Virtue, integrity and courage are my priorities. I can be approached, but never pushed; befriended, but never coerced; killed, but never shamed. Admiral Yi Sun Shin --- 1545-1598
nihil prius fide
So this is the stuff that pays the bills. When a man looks back on his life, he should be proud of all that he's done, not just the parts that were applauded. This is my commerce, not my writing or my film. It does not belong to me.
"LET THERE BE LIGHT"
"We're in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And, we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell... one inch at a time... I look around, I see these young faces and I think, I mean, I've made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I, uh, I've pissed away all my money... I chased off anyone who's ever loved me. And lately, I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror. You know, when you get old, in life, things get taken from you. I mean, that's... that's... that's a part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losin' stuff. You find out life's this game of inches... the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when we add up all those inches, that's gonna make the fucking difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying! I'll tell you this, in any fight it's the guy whose willing to die whose gonna win that inch. And I know, if I'm gonna have any life anymore it's because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch, because that's what living is, the six inches in front of your face." Tony D'Amato
When I'm dead and gone, let them say I lived my life the way I lived it, not the way others wanted me to...
"Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I will meet you there... " --Rumi, Sufi poet
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."--Thomas Edison
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