I've been overhauling and updating my links section over the past few days, and I feel it's already become substantially more useful. Further revision and additions are all but certain, but I'm still fairly pleased, as the current list certainly has a far more robust and representative feel to it than past iterations. I'll also be continuing the gradual shift away from mere surgical updates and the like, so don't be surprised by my tangential drift as time goes on. Otherwise, lest this post be confused with mere digital housekeeping, allow me to leave off with a few personally motivating quotations:
And a couple longer ones...
"Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself." - Elie Wiesel
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power." - Lao Tzu
"The first and the best victory is to conquer self." - Plato
And a couple longer ones...
"Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality." - Neal A. Maxwell
"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life." - James Allen
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