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I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.
Don’t let your actions be dictated by the accident that puts one in front of your eyes and hides the next. If they’re worth saving, save them all, find them, protect them, make it your life’s work. If not, take a different street so you won’t even see the one you might have seen, turn your head aside, put a hand to your eyes.
No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.”
But words are only words and they seldom turn a person from their path unless they want to be turned.
“Decadence begins when the budget to beautify a man’s home exceeds the coin spent to ensure its defence.”
Nothing can be cut away without loss. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world.
but knowing and fixing are different things.
Holy or not, monks are an unwashed lot. The old brother ahead of me made frequent releases of evil smells that the rope around his habit could not restrain.
“It’s good that you have some doubt in you, Gomsty. Men who are certain of everything—well, perhaps they’re not men at all.”
“People who talk about the weather would be better served by admitting they’ve nothing to say but like the sound of their own voice.”
I understood it and didn’t care. The strong will hurt the weak, it’s the natural order.
“Christ-on-a-bike!” One of Makin’s oaths, that. I don’t know what a bike is but it sounds painful.
When you’re in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It’s a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.
A great sage once said there are few problems that won’t go away if you ignore them long enough.
After all, getting everything you wish for is nearly as dire a curse as having all your dreams come true.
A place where they spoke a different tongue, where minds ran different paths.
