Some words to inspire and challenge you, as they have done for me.

All men die, few men ever really live. The purposes of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.

You must be the leader of your own personal resistance to tyranny.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Thoreau

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the TV and treat life as if it goes on forever.
Philip Adams

Men have become the tools of their tools.
Thoreau

When you reach the thing you were desiring, if it doesn’t satisfy you, it was not what you were desiring.
C.S. Lewis

You can not discover new oceans until you have the courage to lose sight of the shoreline.

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
Thoreau

Narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Jesus of Nazareth

Life is not a problem to be solved, it is an adventure to be lived.
John Eldredge

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he yet lives.
Albert Schweitzer

As water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.
Solomon

Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
Helen Keller

All men die, few men ever really live.
William Wallace

It is never too late to become what you were always meant to be

Freedom has a scent… lf you never smelt it, it’s time too
Dallas Hills

We must reawaken and learn to remain awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Thoreau

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.
Author Unknown

You, my brothers, were called to be FREE.
Paul the Apostle

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.
Thoreau

The Larger Story
The Gospel is a fairy tale with, of course, one crucial difference from all other fairy tales… That it is true, and that it not only happened once upon a time but has kept on happening ever since and is happening still.
Frederick Buechner

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C.S. Lewis

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Kierkegaard

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Nietzsche

What happens next? I dare you to move… Like today never happened before.
Switchfoot

Ours is a world of magic and mystery, of deep darkness and flickering starlight. It is a world where terrible things happen and wonderful things too. It is a world where goodness is pitted against evil, love against hate, order against chaos, in a great struggle where often it is hard to be sure who belongs to which side because appearances are endlessly deceptive.
Frederick Buechner

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Thoreau

Enemy occupied territory… that is what the world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.
C.S. Lewis

…the kingdom of God has been forcefully advancing and violent men lay hold of it.
Jesus of Nazareth

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.

Helen Keller
A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. ‘He that will lose his life, the same shall have it,’ is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes, it is a piece of every day advice… He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; He must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.
G.K. Chesterton

I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy

If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong

I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.

You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

Posing is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
Anonymous

Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J.R.R. Tolkien

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide

No man, for any considerable period of time, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the truth.
Nathanial Hawthorne

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
Jose Narosky

To forgive is to set the slave free, and then discover the slave was you.
Dallas Hills

Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight.
Bruce Cockburn

The story of your life is the story of the journey of your heart through a dangerous and beautiful world. It is the story of the long and sustained assault on your heart by the Enemy who knows who you could be and fears you.

John Eldredge
I am afflicted and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
King David

The purposes of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.
Solomon

To be courageous does not mean that you are not afraid. It means that fear doesn’t win by changing your course.
Nicole Johnson

Our problem is not that we desire too much, but that we desire too little.
C.S. Lewis

Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses. You been out riding fences for so long now. O you’re a hard one, but I know That you got your reasons… You better let somebody love before it’s too late.
The Eagles

Everybody sees how you seem, But only a few know who you are.
Anonymous

A good name is more desirable than great riches…
King Solomon

The Greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
Verbal Kint

The devil sleepeth not… therefore cease not to prepare thyself for the battle, for on thy right hand and on thy left hand are enemies who never rest.
Thomas a’Kempis

A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.
G.K. Chesterton

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan

It’s a dangerous business… going out your front door.
J.R.R. Tolkien

Courage is being scared spitless - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
English Proverb

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke

This is where we are now in the midst of battle without the training we really need, and there are few men around to show us how to do it.
John Eldredge

You must be the leader of your own personal resistance to tyranny.

Families sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly.
Theodore Roosevelt

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
Thoreau

“A noble hart may hae nae ease, gif freedom failye”
(”A noble heart may have no ease if freedom fail”)
Anonymous

Don’t ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs are men who have come fully alive.
Anonymous

The last temptation that’s the greatest treason is to do the right thing for the wrong reasons.
T.S. Eliot

We live in an age of great events and little men.
Churchill

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see.
Felix Alder

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Jesus Christ

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.

A man who is going nowhere can have no fellow travelers.
C.S Lewis

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr.

All of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble.
Apostle Peter

Whatever comes out of these gates, we have a better chance of survival if we work together… If we stay together, we survive.
Maximus

They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. They all march in line, not swerving from their course. They do not jostle each other; each marches straight ahead. They plunge through defenses without breaking ranks.
Joel the Prophet

You’re a special group. You’ve found in one another a bond, that exists only in combat, among brothers.
General Liebgott

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.
Apostle Paul

Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
Timothy

Lt. George Rice: Looks like you guys are going to be surrounded.
Col. Dick Winters: We’re soldiers, Lieutenant, we’re supposed to be surrounded.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor Hugo

The question is not what you look at… but what you see.
Thoreau

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Paul the Apostle

Few things are as encouraging as the realization that things can be different and that we have a role in making them so.
Daniel Taylor

There is a time for departure even when you are not certain the place you are going to go.

The key to a successful attack is to lay down a good steady base of fire and advance under that fire. If done correctly, it gets the job done and saves lives. You can talk about it, you can go through dry run exercises, but you only get the feel of it with actual experience.
Major Dick Winters

Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
God

A coward turns away, but a brave man’s choice is danger.
Euripides

A man is never more a man than when he embraces an adventure beyond his control, or when he walks into a battle he isn’t sure of winning.
John Eldridge

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
G.K. Chesterton

What we do in this life echoes in eternity.
Maximus

You, my brothers, were called to be FREE.
Paul the Apostle

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

It is never too late to become what you were always meant to be.

And with each challenge faced, with each victory won, you suddenly come to the realization that you are a different person than the one who began the journey.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us…that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumphs.

FREEDOM should not be highly rated.
Thomas Paine

This is not the end of the road; it’s the trailhead. What you are journeying toward is freedom, healing and authenticity
John Eldredge