Quotes from David Clark

People are trying to be smart—all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.

While grace does do away with the need for good works, it's grace which also makes good works truly possible. If good works don't play into your salvation, then doing them is a sheer act of love, both for those they benefit and to God. It's a way of solving the conundrum of how can a good work be truly good if the doer of the work expects to benefit from it in any way." -David Clark

When you focus, you can achieve anything. If you have no focus, you will achieve nothing.

I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it; indeed, especially when one doesn't like it.

How we view ourselves and define ourselves is perhaps the most essential paradigm we have as human beings. It determines all of our actions and reactions.

As I see it, my job is to maximize my talents and experiences in a way that will help make the world better—to carry my own weight in impacting the universal trajectory of mankind.

Who we are is who we choose to be in this very moment.

The initial letter in the profile means either introversion or extroversion. -The second letter in the mix will end up being either be the letter "S" to stand for sensing or the letter "N" for intuition. -Next, the third letter is either an "F" to stand for feeler or the letter "T" to stand for thinker. -Finally, the fourth letter is either a "P" to stand for perceiver or "J" for judger.

There is a special feeling of knowing that nothing must die for me to thrive.

We may never know, with any certainty, what will produce the longest and healthiest life. But there are a few things we can all agree on… maybe. Processed foods are the single biggest offender in terms of burglarizing our health. And as such, they should be put on the list of known predators and violent offenders.

After all, the object isn't to become so mentally strong that we can suffer through any experience; the object is to become so peaceful inside that we choose not to suffer when the pain comes.

If you want to change yourself long term, you have to change the way you think and change the way you perceive the world. You have to come up with a new set of eyes to view yourself with. You need a new way of communicating internally with yourself and you need to ask yourself different questions.

Addicts know the voices in their heads can't be trusted, and that is precisely why there are so many of us out there in the ultra marathon community, moving forward one step at a time. And that's what Nico and I did—one step followed by another until we got to Hope Pass.

Using guilt is not productive. Appealing to the greatness of others is what works for Warren, and it will work for you.

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far." -Daniel Goleman

Its not how you start your life its how you finish it