Quotes

“Humility is the secret of the wise.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Recently, I received notification I was 1100 days from turning 30.

The email asked me the same thing it always does: “What have you done with today?”

For the first time in 770 days, I can say, “All I wanted to.”

“Let them see that their words can cut you, and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.”

“Let me give you some counsel, bastard,” Lannister said. “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”

“Minds change,” Faile said, “much more quickly than hearts.” – Towers of Midnight

This is why it’s possible to be so angry at the one you love one minute, and fawning over them the next.

“Seconds were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top
of one another, they became a man’s life.” – Androl and Dedicated Ashaman from Towers of Midnight

“Life was about feeling. Touches on your skin, both passionate and icy. Anything other than the normal, the average, the lukewarm.” – Graendal – Towers of Midnight – Wheel of Time Book 13

Fulke Greville – “Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.”

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot