Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.

You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.

Everything costs something everyone pays

It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.

Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.

We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.

Frostbite? I consider that a failure.