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“But then why do we write if not to tackle the fears that others look to us to conquer?”
― Joanna Penn, Author 2.0 Blueprint

“I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Nicholas, your people have come home.”
― Blaine Lee Pardoe, Hour Of The Wolf

“Aloof, arrogant, and almost always right, Bekker had become a true Wolf.”
― Blaine Lee Pardoe, Hour Of The Wolf

“Cheese pizza is a fine thing, no doubt, but the addition of pepperoni makes it into something totally different—namely, a pepperoni pizza—and a pepperoni pizza is not the same as a cheese pizza, for it has pepperoni. These things are not the same. Unalike. Dissimilar. Two entirely separate and distinct Platonic categories. One titled cheese pizza. The other entitled pepperoni pizza.”
― Ben Riggs, Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons

“After all, the only way to overcome pain is to first learn how to bear it.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Pain is what teaches us what to pay attention to when we’re young or careless. It helps show us what’s good for us versus what’s bad for us.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“I wanted the reward and not the struggle. I wanted the result and not the process. I was in love with not the fight but only the victory. And life doesn’t work that way.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Numerous professors and educators have noted a lack of emotional resilience and an excess of selfish demands in today’s young people.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/success.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Certainty is the enemy of growth.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“It’s suspected by many scholars that Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet not to celebrate romance, but rather to satirize it, to show how absolutely nutty it was. He didn’t mean for the play to be a glorification of love. In fact, he meant it to be the opposite: a big flashing neon sign blinking KEEP OUT, with police tape around it saying DO NOT CROSS.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Death is the only thing we can know with any certainty.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“To promote all religions, Genghis Khan exempted religious leaders and their property from taxation and from all types of public service. To promote related professions, he later extended the same tax exemptions to a range of professionals who provided essential public services, including undertakers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and scholars.”
― Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

“Mongols did not permit the execution of criminals to become a public sport, as in the beheadings and hangings common in European cities. The Mongols offered no counterpart to the common public entertainment of burning people alive that occurred so frequently in western Europe wherever the Christian church had the power to do so.”
― Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

“The plague was an epidemic of commerce. The same Mongol roads and caravans that knitted together the Eurasian world of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries moved more than mere silk and spices. The roads and way stations set up by the Mongols for merchants also served as the inadvertent transfer points for the fleas and, thereby, for the disease itself.”
― Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

“I have tried to live my life such that in the hour of my death I would feel joy rather than fear.”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“One day, you and everyone you love will die. And beyond a small group of people for an extremely brief period of time, little of what you say or do will ever matter. This is the Uncomfortable Truth of life. And everything you think or do is but an elaborate avoidance of it. We are inconsequential cosmic dust, bumping and milling about on a tiny blue speck. We imagine our own importance. We invent our purpose—we are nothing. Enjoy your fucking coffee.”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“that he’d rather have the problem of passion with the bottle than have no passion at all;”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“Self-control is an emotional problem; laziness is an emotional problem; procrastination is an emotional problem; underachievement is an emotional problem; impulsiveness is an emotional problem.”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“that no matter how much wealth is generated in the world, the quality of our lives is determined by the quality of our character, and the quality of our character is determined by our relationship to our pain.”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“When we deny ourselves the ability to feel pain for a purpose, we deny ourselves the ability to feel any purpose in our life at all.”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“most of us will google for what is pleasant but untrue.”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“Fake freedom is addictive: no matter how much you have, you always feel as though it’s not enough. Real freedom is repetitive, predictable, and sometimes dull.”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“Freedom itself demands discomfort. It demands dissatisfaction. Because the freer a society becomes, the more each person will be forced to reckon and compromise with views and lifestyles and ideas that conflict with their own. The”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“If it’s a Bolt out of the Blue attack,” says Fugate, “population protection planning is a different animal. With a Bolt out of the Blue attack, population protection planning won’t happen because everyone will be dead.”
― Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario