John Grady Cole

La mirada noble y afable del Setter.

Consistency, focus and discipline are three key things to achieve your goals.

Man sins... then blames it on the devil.

Hey lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” — Robert Frost

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” — Mark Twain

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay." — Seneca

"If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own." — Epictetus

BREAKING NEWS: Cormac McCarthy, a preeminent voice in American literature over the better part of the past half-century, died today at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., his publisher, Knopf, confirmed. He was 89. Full obit to follow.

The riders squatted at the fires and boiled water and drank coffee and roasted meat and lay down to sleep among the dead.

"Two words should be taken to heart and obeyed when exerting ourselves for good and restraining ourselves from evil—words that will ensure a blameless and untroubled life: persist and resist." — Epictetus

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.

Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love..

5 Stoic lessons from Marcus Aurelius: 1. The obstacle is the way 2. Be strict with yourself, tolerant with others 3. Stop caring about what others do/say/think 4. You don't have to have an opinion 5. You could leave life right now—let that determine what you do and say and think

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Good things doesn’t happen to you, You have to make it happen. People get what they worked for, Not what they wished for.

No bones, no dust. How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them.

This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up.