{"id":2108,"date":"2026-02-24T05:25:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2026-02-24T05:25:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:25:42","slug":"lunch-box-quotes-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/?p=2108","title":{"rendered":"Lunch Box Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">I wish I had found the quote for Number 1 two weeks ago! His Subaru had a major oil leak&#8230;like keep a case of oil in the car, oil leak, and it was in the shop for a couple of weeks. Oh well. It still made me chuckle. The challenges of this week (at work) got me thinking about this generation of young men and women, and I have to say that I am impressed. For all of the naysayers, I have witnessed grit and determination that gives me hope for our future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As a reminder, Lunch Box Quotes are notes I include in the kids\u2019 lunches every day. Number 1 gets a text, but 2-4 get handwritten napkins. Today, I am going to have to solicit some help from the wife as she will be writing my notes for the next little while. I can publish, but require a little help on that end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Visual credits to: Featured image \u2013 @fraveris Quotes: @Naturalphilosy @thenicklavery @readswithravi @Gitana1369877<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Quotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">1. <em>\u201cThe world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.\u201d<\/em> &#8211; Werner Herzog<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">2. <em>\u201cPeople sleep soundly in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.\u201d<\/em> &#8211; George Orwell<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">3.<em> &#8220;Nothing transforms your life faster than a decision followed by constant effort.&#8221; &#8211; Unknown<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">4. <em>\u201cLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one&#8217;s courage.\u201d<\/em> &#8211; Anais Nin<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Bonus quote for the wife: <em>&#8220;Life is a thin bridge between two infinities, and we are the light dancing in the middle.\u201d<\/em> &#8211; variation of Vladimir Nabokov<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cThe world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Werner Herzog <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VSJUVitxF7\">pic.twitter.com\/VSJUVitxF7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Natural Philosophy (@Naturalphilosy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Naturalphilosy\/status\/2025961562469720162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4iML4VGRdJ\">pic.twitter.com\/4iML4VGRdJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reads with Ravi (@readswithravi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/readswithravi\/status\/2026035334207741982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ROUGH MEN<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople sleep soundly in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014George Orwell<\/p>\n<p>\u2694\ufe0f\ud83e\udee1<\/p>\n<p>-Nick<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mpg133EeF5\">pic.twitter.com\/Mpg133EeF5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Lavery (@thenicklavery) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thenicklavery\/status\/2025915966303908336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one&#8217;s courage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2015 Anais Nin <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TGY2VxL8Jc\">pic.twitter.com\/TGY2VxL8Jc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Francisco Ribeiro (@fraveris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fraveris\/status\/2025217438300754009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2022 &#8220;Life is a thin bridge between two infinities, and we are the light dancing in the middle\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y5je2vMfcT\">pic.twitter.com\/y5je2vMfcT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gitana (@Gitana1369877) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gitana1369877\/status\/2025947818590896323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I had found the quote for Number 1 two weeks ago! His Subaru had a major oil leak&#8230;like keep a case of oil in the car, oil leak, and it was in the shop for a couple of weeks. Oh well. It still made me chuckle. The challenges of this week (at work) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lunch-box-quotes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Courage.jpg","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}