The ability to see the future ...

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
 John Irving

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving.
 Billy Mills
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.
I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.
 Monica Crowley
THE PATH OF PEACE is exceedingly vast, reflecting the grand design of the hidden and manifest worlds. A warrior is a living shrine of the divine, one who serves that grand purpose.
 Morihei Ueshiba

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I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
 John Irving
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. Theyƕre going someplace.
 John Irving
I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.
 John Irving
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
 John Irving
so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.
 John Irving