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“Not all men are destined for greatness,” I reminded him.
“Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine.
You create possibilities. While you exist, the future can be steered.
“Thinking is not always…comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting.
when a soldier cannot defend what his leader has done, he must either agree with the criticism or find another area in which to disagree.
‘The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will.’
I. It was possible to be homesick for a time, and to be lonely for the only other person who could recall it. I nodded. “Ah. Well.
No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears. Regal is that man.
The exercise for centering oneself is a simple one. Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is. Then, in that place, you will finally have time to be yourself.
Wolves have no Kings.
