#stance

Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it. ↗

— Richard Pound

#accidental #active #cheating #complex #complicity

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. ↗

— Nido Qubein

#circumstances #determine #go #merely #present

Typically, in the cities there can be resistance to the gospel or just to Americans, or anybody that's Western. When you get back into the villages, the people are very welcoming. Then when you get into Muslim areas, it definitely gets a little more difficult. ↗

— Michael Scott

#areas #back #cities #definitely #difficult

I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#circumstance #forgive #forgiven #god #having

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#lies #lying #resistance #shit #art

Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#art

Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#resistance #art

Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#toxic #art

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#resistance #art

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#meant-to-be #purpose #resistance #soul #spirit