Justin Lancy

in the long run social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

What feels on the surface like rejection is often redirection. When you ask for a big life, you cannot keep fighting for a smaller one to stay.

There are more possible futures than the one that actually happens.

No one is free who is not master of himself. Pythagoras

André Gide put it, “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”

Heaven is the place where you think of nowhere else.

There are very few things that excite you in a way that makes you nearly uncomfortable with your wanting of them. Desire is so integral to who you are, it is part of you even if you are not conscious of it—even when your ego chooses to shield you from your awareness of it. What you are waiting on is your own willingness to accept the mountain you

My general preparations include everything I do to be healthy and ready for surprises, with a full palette of resources available. I need energy to acquire skill, energy to practice, energy to keep going through the inevitable setbacks, energy to keep going when things look good and I am tempted to sit back and relax. I need physical energy,