"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

— Jim Ryun

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Why, I think I wish I was a varsity athlete.

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; ‘these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions’; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit: ‘the good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life…for as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy."

— Aristotle

It’s damn well time that I write something on here. 

Yet for all my thoughts, I am at a loss for words. Perhaps that is why I refer to quotes and images so frequently. 

That wasn’t so fruitful after all.

venimori:

I Alone (by orangeduck1207)

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    Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.

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