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“We know the truth: we can’t stop what’s coming. We can’t prevent the next extinction event. What we can do… is control what happens after. That is the key to the future.”
Life had taught Owen the value of time. How precious it was. How quickly things changed.
Growing up, Owen’s mother and father never used the word handicap. Limitation—that’s the word they used. Because everyone has limitations.
“Life isn’t about your limitations. They matter far less than you think. You make a living doing what you’re good at. That’s what’s important—your strengths, not your limitations.”
Every human is born with a birthright. That birthright is happiness. Our greatest challenge to achieving happiness is not the obstacles we encounter in our life. The true barrier to happiness lies inside of us—and it’s the one thing we can’t ever escape: our own mind.
The Birthright is a book about science and psychology, and most of all, understanding yourself and the world around you.”
this is how the world ends. The strong don’t survive. The cunning survive. The people who slit throats and slink away—they survive.
It’s funny how our minds get locked into our own vision of how things are going to be. If it’s different from that, we resist, even if it’s better.
“Often, in life, the most obvious path is not the right one.”
We say that we spend time for a reason—time is a currency. In the end, it’s the only currency that matters.”
Their founder had a single belief: that the true threat to humanity begins and ends in our brains.”
What he didn’t know is that Cara, Alister, and Will had all told very big lies. Lies that they knew about. Lies that would change everything.
