KATTIMUTHU

“The body should be kept in good health and condition and trained to obey the orders of the mind, rather than to rule the mind, as is so often the case.”
― Yogi Ramacharaka, Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism

“Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of complete idleness, that is, absence of all rational and useful work; frees them from their common human duties, which it replaces by merely conventional duties to the honor of the regiment, the uniform, the flag; and while giving them on the one hand absolute power over other men, also puts them into conditions of servile obedience to those of higher ranks than themselves.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

“For to stay, though the hours burn in the night, is to freeze and crystallize and be bound in a mould.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“They themselves are makers of themselves.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh