Blake Thornley:
CLASS OF 1988
Carson City High SchoolClass of 1988
Carson city, NV
Blake's Story
Blake is from Los Angeles, California. Blake's schools include Carson City High School. Blake later attended Stanford University (Software Security Foundations) , University of Redlands (Management Information Systems) , Western Nevada College.
Music Blake likes includes Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Itzhak Perlman, Kunfusion Flamenca. Books Blake likes include The Little Prince Official, El Zahir, Bounce. Movies Blake likes include Incognito, La Vita è Bella Life Is Beautiful, jeux d'enfants.
One of Blake's favorite quotes is:""My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." ~Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." ~ Albert Camus
"La belleza es un soplo contra el viento de la realidad." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
"I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single m...Expand for more
oment of my stupid little life." ` from American Beauty
"fencing: The art of learning to surprise somebody who's standing three feet away and staring right at you." ~ Devin Donnelly
"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect." ~ Vince Lombardi
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.â ~ Edmund Burke
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment." ~ Lao-Tzu
"Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink." ~ Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
"As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw." ~ Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
"To study the way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to become one with all things." ~ Dogen Zenji
"Today's problems cannot be solved if we still think the way we thought when we created them." ~ Albert Einstein
âFrom this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brotherâ ~ William Shakespeare
"Know thyself." ~ Plato
"Yo no busco, yo encuentro." ~ Pablo Picasso
"My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack." ~ Ferdinand Foch
âEs mejor morir de pie, que vivir arrodilladoâ ~ Emiliano Zapata
"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;" ~ Alexander Pope".
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