If your diet is dialed in, you can train in a pretty subpar manner and still get passable results. On the other hand, if your training is fantastic but your diet is crap, you have a harder road ahead of you.

Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.'

I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Unbelievably, the whales continued to circle me. Eventually, I was even able to run my hands down Mama's back several times. Her black skin felt much tougher and tired. Remnants of barnacles made her skin rough in patches. She seemed more hesitant of this human. Perhaps she had firsthand evidence of man's horrible actions and treachery. I didn't blame her for her concerns. I had come to trust fewer and fewer humans myself. Her giant eyes possessed wisdom only found in the passage of time and miles traveled on long journeys.

What then, had I discovered? That there is nobody so duplicitous as oneself? That certainty is nothing but unreasonable belief? That there can be no answer to death? That there should be no answer to it, at least not for the living? That we have in all of us, written into our very matter, an unpassable divide; and if there is a bridge between this world and the next, then surely there is only one toll to pay.

How grief and the passage of years can leave their mark. How the burden of duty can wear away the body's resilience. - Pg. 242

Ciascuno esamini i propri pensieri: li trover? sempre occupati dal passato e dall'avvenire. Non pensiamo quasi mai al presente, o se ci pensiamo, ? solo per prenderne lume al fine di predisporre l'avvenire. Il presente non ? mai il nostro fine: il passato o il presente sono i nostri mezzi; solo l'avvenire ? il nostro fine. Cos? non viviamo mai, ma speriamo di vivere, e, preparandoci sempre ad essere felici, ? inevitabile che non siamo mai tali.

When the golden rabbit had safely emerged out of the forbidden passage, he pondered the direction back to his lair. "How can it be I don't live where I used to live anymore? How can that be? Alright then?.alright. What a strange dream?I feel as though I've been eaves dropping in tempo?but not in time!" The hare hopped off, humming passages from Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue".

Julguei que ia morrer. Queria morrer. E julguei que se fosse morrer ia morrer contigo. Rapazes como tu, jovens como eu?vi morrer tantos ao p? de mim durante o ano passado! N?o tive medo nenhum. N?o foi coragem o que ainda agora me fez ficar aqui. Pensei com os meus bot?es: "Temos esta cama, esta erva, dev?amos ter-nos deitado juntados, abra?ados, antes de morrer". Apeteceu-me tocar-te nesse osso do pesco?o, a clav?cula, que parece uma asa pequena e dura debaixo da pele. Apeteceu-me afag?-la com os dedos. Sempre gostei de corpos da cor dos rios e das pedras, da cor do olho castanho de uma susana, conheces essa flor? J? viste alguma? Estou t?o cansada Kip, s? me apetece dormir. Apetece-me dormir debaixo desta ?rvore, de cara encostada ? tua clav?cula, apetece-me fechar os olhos, sem pensar em mais ningu?m, encontrar um nicho de ?rvore, trepar l? para dentro e dormir. Que esp?rito meticuloso! Saber que fio h?s de cortar. Como ? que soubeste? Foste dizendo n?o sei, n?o sei, mas sabias. N?o foi? N?o tremas, tens de ser uma cama sossegada para mim, deixa-me aninhar-me, abra?ar-te como se fosses um avozinho, adiro a palavra "aninhar", t?o lenta, n?o se pode apress?-la.

Perceived acceleration of time's passage is largely due to the absence of nuance.

Nuance is one of the most valuable tools in slowing the perceived passage of time.

If we subject ourselves to the same 'cookie cutter' patterns day in and day out, the perception of time's passage accelerates substantially. Nuance slows time.

Medical literature for the Ages. Most ages of innovation have transcended humankind by way of passage. It is in its essence, human innovation, bid romance, its triumph of human passion over disease. (Great. Katheline, pp 20-27, 2021)

The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for "salvation." And yet what is the burden of the Bible if not a sense of the mutuality of influence, rising out of an essential unity, among soul and body and community and world? These are all the works of God, and it is therefore the work of virtue to make or restore harmony among them. The world is certainly thought of as a place of spiritual trial, but it is also the confluence of soul and body, word and flesh, where thoughts must become deeds, where goodness must be enacted. This is the great meeting place, the narrow passage where spirit and flesh, word and world, pass into each other. The Bible's aim, as I read it, is not the freeing of the spirit from the world. It is the handbook of their interaction. It says that they cannot be divided; that their mutuality, their unity, is inescapable; that they are not reconciled in division, but in harmony. What else can be meant by the resurrection of the body? The body should be "filled with light," perfected in understanding. And so everywhere there is the sense of consequence, fear and desire, grief and joy. What is desirable is repeatedly defined in the tensions of the sense of consequence.

Jesus didn't speak of hell so that we could study, debate and write books about it. He gave us these passages so that we would live holy lives. Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are.

Quella vita ch'? una cosa bella, non ? la vita che si conosce, ma quella che non si conosce; non la vita passata, ma la futura. Coll'anno nuovo, il caso incomincer? a trattar bene voi e me e tutti gli altri, e si principier? la vita felice. Non ? vero?

One of the most striking things about the New Testament teaching on homosexuality is that, right on the heels of the passages that condemn homosexual activity, there are, without exception, resounding affirmations of God's extravagant mercy and redemption. God condemns homosexual behavior and amazingly, profligately, at great cost to himself, lavishes his love on homosexual persons.

One of Mom's favorite passages from Gilead was: "This is an important thing, which I have told many people, and which my father told me, and which his father told him. When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, what is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?