All that we are

is the result

of what we have

thought.

The mind

is everything.

What we think

we become.

"And how can a man die better

Than facing fearful odds,

For the ashes of his fathers

And the temples of his God,"

- Horatius

&

"They have fallen into the common

but gross error of confounding

the unusual with the abstruse."

- Dupin

(Taken from Murders In The Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe)

Mainly these two quotes, I feel, encompass the vast over scale of my personality. The first represents my past, which is filled with "fearful odds" and "dying" (rather on the inside, in the heart), and the second represents my logical state that people always confuse with idiocy, yet I'll notice if one thing about their being or person is off.

Idiocy? Or logical observation?

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil, but for good people to do evil-that takes religion.”-Steven Weinberg

Humans as a species have a desire to claim dedication to a deity or multiple deities, but we never stop to think whether the deity or deities we worship are disrupting the goodness we may have in us. Instead of trying to make radical changes in the name of religion, we should instead change the world in the name of love.

I love this quote because it's saying that there is more to get to, once you reach something there is something else to look forward to. To progress toward. That if somebody tells you that you have done all you can, and there's no other way , that it is NOT the limit. That you can not tell me what my limit is , because I can reach goals, and limits for myself that could be meaningless to you but is so wonderful to me. I'll outdo your limit, and my own. That even if you think that I can't do it, I will always reach my limit. Not only will I reach it, but I'll push past it, to reach an even higher limit. I'll never stop looking and searching for a better limit.

Nobody can define my limit, but me.

"What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good."

-Maya Angelou

A quote to remind us to live our lives with purpose but to keep in mind that we can always do some good somewhere, somehow. With or without a plan.